Book Club - "My Sister’s Keeper"

Jodi Picoult’s book My Sisters Keeper was exactly like I expected having read her novels before. Although I don’t think her writing is completely profound I do enjoy her ideas and twists on writing stories based off of popular debates in modern culture. Also she tends to have a few twists with a grand finale at the end that I can’t help but love.

In this story Jodi writes about a family, a family with a very sick daughter and their fight by any means to keep her alive. This leads them to have another child who is a genetic match for their sick child. It starts small with the parents just using the stem cells from the umbilical cord but over the years more and more procedures are needed in order to keep the sick child alive. The story takes a turn when the second child, the one giving her body for her sister, goes to a lawyer and demands that all procedures stop. There is much more from there but I will let you discover that for yourself.