Thursday, April 10, 2008

My Sister's Keeper


By Jodi Picoult. Ah, a good fiction read. And what I mean by a good fiction read here is nice beach vacation kind of light read, plot driven to the end. But, it wasn't all fluff. The main dilemma of the story--the ethics of genetically engineering a child and then using her blood and organs to support an older, sick child and the family dymanics that are involved when a child is suffering from severe illness--are thought provoking. All in all, the story was interesting and compelling. The characters were interesting for the most part. And the ending? Well. That threw me for a loop. I kept wondering how it would end. And wow. Picoult pulled out a good one with it.

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