I'm back! Just posted about a week ago, but this book was amazing, and I was addicted to it(:
Jesse and Kate. Two normal, beautiful children. Until Kate is diagnosed with leukemia when she was two years old. When Kate needed operations for bone marrow and many other things, Sara and Brian (their parents) needed someone who would be a donor to her. This donor would need to be the perfect match for Kate, otherwise the transplant wouldn't work. And that's how Anna was brought into the picture.
Anna was conceived through in vitro fertilization, so she would be a perfect match for her sister. Immediately after her birth, her umbilical blood was given to Kate. This would be one of the many medical procedures involving Anna.
Anna is thirteen. Kate is sixteen. Anna starts to develop her own thoughts and opinions, and is willing to fight for them, as every young woman begins to do at this time. When Kate is in need of a kidney transplant, Anna puts her foot down. She doesn't want to go through another surgery (she's already had eight) and deal with terrible side effects that could harm her. She doesn't want to be cut open again, without voicing her opinion. Anna realizes that someone needs to represent her, to help her get her point across. She hires a lawyer named Campbell Alexander to help her file a law suit against her parents for medical emancipation, or the rights to her own body.
Jodi Picoult wrote this novel with a style different from most authors. The main characters become the narrators, and the story switches off into their own perspective. The narrators are Anna, Jesse, Sara, Brian, Campbell Alexander, Julia (Anna's guardian ad litem), and one very unexpected person.
Everyone, including Anna, knows one thing for sure: If Anna does not go through with the surgery, if she is medically emancipated, then Kate will die. There isn't much time left. Would you try to save someone, even if it meant putting your own life on the line?
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