My Sister’s Keeper deals with a controversial subject that will have readers questioning the morality of certain medical decisions. Anna is the product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis. She has been specifically conceived as a bone marrow match for a family member. By the age of thirteen she has faced many surgeries and medical procedures to assist her sibling in battling a deadly disease which she has had since early childhood. Anna starts to question the life and role she plays in this never ending saga of medical procedures. Anna finally makes a decision that utlimately has an impact on both her and her family.
Read My Sister’s Keeper and join the Page Turner Book Club on Monday, January 21st, 2008, between 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. to discuss the medical issues that Jodi Picoult has brought to the forefront.
Alas, I’ve not the time to pick up any decent literature of late, so I fear I’ve not had the chance to indulge in this – seemingly – fascinating novel. Controversy always serves as a brilliant medium for authors, and often draws in the most readers. Who doesn’t like to have their moral values challenged; to have the very foundation of that which they believe in shaken to the very core? And this sounds like it does that quite effectively. I shall certainly look into it. Might I suggest, as well, ‘The Mayfair Witches’ by Anne Rice? She too brings up some…controversial issues in that particular volume.
- Selvanic