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I picked this book up on Monday and was finished with it on Tuesday. It was an easy read but a hard story to deal with.
A 13 year old girl named Anna (short for Andromeda)is at the center of this story. She was conceived by her parents in the hopes that she could be a perfect donor to her older sister, Kate diagnosed with APL (a rare type of leukemia). In the course of 13 years, she donated stem cells, blood, platelets, leucocytes, and bone marrow to her sister. But when Kate goes into renal fai ...more
A 13 year old girl named Anna (short for Andromeda)is at the center of this story. She was conceived by her parents in the hopes that she could be a perfect donor to her older sister, Kate diagnosed with APL (a rare type of leukemia). In the course of 13 years, she donated stem cells, blood, platelets, leucocytes, and bone marrow to her sister. But when Kate goes into renal fai ...more
With another drama ripped from the headlines, Picoult weaves a complicated tale of the implications of genetically engineering a baby in order to save another child's life.
Kate has leukemia. Her sister, Anna, (now 13) was conceived to provide a donor match for procedures that become more and more invasive. When her parents decide that Anna will donate a kidney to save her sister's life, Anna hires a lawyer so that she can sue her parents for medical emancipation.
Meanwhile, Jesse, the oldest chi ...more
Kate has leukemia. Her sister, Anna, (now 13) was conceived to provide a donor match for procedures that become more and more invasive. When her parents decide that Anna will donate a kidney to save her sister's life, Anna hires a lawyer so that she can sue her parents for medical emancipation.
Meanwhile, Jesse, the oldest chi ...more
Another wonderful book by Picoult. I really enjoyed the story and could not put the book down.
I couldn't put this book down. I was engrossed from the very first chapter. I LOVED the story being told from so many different points of view. I thought Picoult did a brilliant job of developing her characters that way. You so rarely get to really know multiple characters so intimately in a story and I think knowing all the players in this story made it that much more powerful and thought-provoking. Really difficult subject matter, very intense.
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I think Picoult is such a talented writer. Her ability to cover different types of characters in extreme situations so accurately is fantastic. This book in particular grabs you. At times it can be so heart breaking, but it feels so real.
This was my first Picoult book. It was very good. I have heard only good things about it and it was just as good as I expected. The cover and the title makes you think that it is about something else though.
This was a very good book, but I did have to keep a box of tissues handy throughout.
Apr 17, 2008
Dana
marked it as to-read
