Resumo de My Sister's Keeper

This moving book deals with a complex existential questions, yet,describes in a gentle and articulate way the everyday relationships among a family that is dealing with impossible situations. A story that has neither good nor evil. The story evolves around Anna, a 13 years old girl who is trying to define her own identity like every other teenager, only that her identity and destiny in life were decided a long time before she was even born. Anna was conceived in order to be aperfect geneticorgan donor for her sister, Katie, which is sick with leukemia promilocities. Katie was diagnosed when she was 4 years old, and since then no treatment has been effective, and also, her older brother Jessie was found geneticallyincompatible to be a donor. Her parents, Bryan and Sara,have decided to have another childthat will be a perfect match for Katie.Their goal, saving their daughter's life,overcomes the moral questionregarding cloning humans, and out of 4 eggs, Anna has been chosen. The family's life evolves around Katie's illness eruptions, and only from time to time, does their lives appear as that of a normal family's. Anna even claims that she had never been a child, and was forced to mature at once.In a family that each person plays a particular role, Anna defies that family structure, despitethe concern for the crumbling of the very meaning of her existence, andthe disappointment of her family. Anna refuses to continue to be an automatic organ donor for her sister, Katie, and fights for her rights over her own body, and refuses to donate a kidney once Katie suffers a kidney failure. As a response to the court's supine for a hearing regarding the rights overAnna's body,in her mother, Sara, emerges once again, the lawyer she once was before she became a mother. Sara is fighting for Katie's life without asking her for her own will. Bryan, the father, is torn apart by his wish to maintain the family's integrity, and his understanding of Anna's feelings, when his main role and occupation, is putting out fires among his family. in an unexpected turns of events, Jessie, that is always drawing fire in his direction, and causing new problems, becomes Anna'sconfidante, that feels like she had really hurt her family. Meanwhile,her trial brings togetherCampbell ,Anna's ambitious lawyer, and Julia, Julia a legal guardianon behalf of the prosecutionappointed by court to write down an expert opinion regarding Anna and her family. The two shares anobscurehistory which is tobe dealtwith once they meat again. during the trialregarding Anna'smedical rights over her body, Katie, the reason for this dispute, is returning to the center of the story aftershe has never been asked for her own will. Jody Pioult, the author, creates this story in a fascinating way, through the eyes of each and every one of the characters making the readers relay to themin anextraordinary waydespite the difficult questions the book brings up, this book is read in a single breath to itsunexpected and surprising ending.

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