The book "My Sister's Keeper" by Jody Picoult is an emotional novel that deals with the relashionship between the members
of the Fitzgerald family after the youngest daughter, Anna sues her
parents for rights for her own body.
Anna is 13 and she her genes were specifically engineered to suit her older sister Kate, who has a terminal cancer, as a blood cell donor. But now, Kate's disease has reached to the stage where Anna is asked by her parents to donate one of her kidney's in order to save Kate's life. She decides to sue rights for her own body and hires a rather snotty and cynical lawyer Kampbel Alexander. He's taking her case for free, for selfish reasons at first, but then he also gets emotionally involved with the case.
Following the
lawsuit Anna filed agaist her parents the relationship in the Fitzgerald family change: her mother immediately goes into a fighting mode as she is desperate to save Kate's life, the troublemaker old brother Jesse goes into a bigger and deeper trouble, setting fires around the town, the father Brian takes Anna's side, thus turns his wife against him and aside from that Kampble finds that Anna's new guardian who was assigned to her by court order is his old flame from high school that is quite mad at him for breaking up with her the way he did.
The ending is very surprising and will most likely bring the reader to tears.
In this book, author dealt with a lot of complex family issues that could cause any close family to tear apart delicately and without overdramatizing the story and events. It's hard to put down this book as this story touches the soft core deep in a person's heart and captures it until the very end of the book. What is probably most capturing about it is the fact that none of the sides presented in this story right or wrong. There is no measurement that can help the reader decide whether the choice of one family member concerning the other is right or wrong.