With her penetrating insight into the hearts and minds of real people, Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person, and what happens when emotions meet with scientific advances. Now a major film.
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate a life and a role that she has never questioned until now.
Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to ask herself who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister - and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.
Told from multiple points of view, My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life . . . even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you?
Once again, in My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.
With her penetrating insight into the hearts and minds of real people, Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person, and what happens when emotions meet with scientific advances. Now a major film.
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate a life and a role that she has never questioned until now.
Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to ask herself who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister - and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.
Told from multiple points of view, My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life . . . even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you?
Once again, in My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.
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Contemporary domestic fiction often explores complex moral dilemmas and legal ethics, a field strongly defined by multi-perspective narratives like My Sister's Keeper. American novelist Jodi Picoult has authored twenty-nine novels translated into forty languages, building a wide readership through deeply researched stories centered on high-stakes moral choices and human relationships.
Born in Nesconset, New York, in 1966, Picoult studied creative writing at Princeton University, graduating in 1987, before earning a master's degree in education from Harvard University. She published her debut novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale, in 1992, beginning a sustained career of publishing major fiction regularly. Over three decades of writing, her books have gained broad recognition, earning accolades such as the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, the Alex Awards from YALSA, a lifetime achievement award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America, the New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit, and the Sarah Josepha Hale Award. She also holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of New Haven.
In addition to her solo novels, Picoult has expanded her work into theater and young adult fiction. Co-authoring the YA novels Between the Lines and Off the Page with her daughter Samantha Van Leer, the duo adapted their books into the stage musical Between the Lines. Picoult served as co-librettist for the musical Breathe and co-adapted a musical stage version of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, which premiered in the United Kingdom in September 2022, along with developing a musical adaptation of Austenland. Active in literary advocacy, she sits on the Board of Trustees for PEN America, acts as a patron for the Carole Shields Prize for Fiction, and received the 2024 Free Speech Defender Robie Harris Author Award from the National Coalition Against Censorship. Picoult resides on a farm in New Hampshire with her husband, Tim van Leer, with whom she has three children and two grandchildren.
Picoult is known for constructing narratives around contentious ethical, legal, and social issues, frequently employing multiple point-of-view perspectives to present contrasting human arguments. Her work incorporates thorough research into legal statutes, medical procedures, historical events, and institutional frameworks, grounding character-driven family dramas in real-world debates. By placing ordinary families at the intersection of unexpected crises, her novels encourage readers to evaluate moral ambiguities from several viewpoints.
3 books in catalog
Contemporary domestic fiction often explores complex moral dilemmas and legal ethics, a field strongly defined by multi-perspective narratives like My Sister's Keeper. American novelist Jodi Picoult has authored twenty-nine novels translated into forty languages, building a wide readership through deeply researched stories centered on high-stakes moral choices and human relationships.
Born in Nesconset, New York, in 1966, Picoult studied creative writing at Princeton University, graduating in 1987, before earning a master's degree in education from Harvard University. She published her debut novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale, in 1992, beginning a sustained career of publishing major fiction regularly. Over three decades of writing, her books have gained broad recognition, earning accolades such as the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, the Alex Awards from YALSA, a lifetime achievement award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America, the New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit, and the Sarah Josepha Hale Award. She also holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of New Haven.
In addition to her solo novels, Picoult has expanded her work into theater and young adult fiction. Co-authoring the YA novels Between the Lines and Off the Page with her daughter Samantha Van Leer, the duo adapted their books into the stage musical Between the Lines. Picoult served as co-librettist for the musical Breathe and co-adapted a musical stage version of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, which premiered in the United Kingdom in September 2022, along with developing a musical adaptation of Austenland. Active in literary advocacy, she sits on the Board of Trustees for PEN America, acts as a patron for the Carole Shields Prize for Fiction, and received the 2024 Free Speech Defender Robie Harris Author Award from the National Coalition Against Censorship. Picoult resides on a farm in New Hampshire with her husband, Tim van Leer, with whom she has three children and two grandchildren.
Picoult is known for constructing narratives around contentious ethical, legal, and social issues, frequently employing multiple point-of-view perspectives to present contrasting human arguments. Her work incorporates thorough research into legal statutes, medical procedures, historical events, and institutional frameworks, grounding character-driven family dramas in real-world debates. By placing ordinary families at the intersection of unexpected crises, her novels encourage readers to evaluate moral ambiguities from several viewpoints.
