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Rent My Sister's Keeper
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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: Feb 2005
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $18.99
Pages: 423
Synopsis
The author vividly evokes the physical and psychic toll a desperately sick child imposes on a family....There can be no easy outcomes in a tale about individual autonomy clashing with a sibling's right to life, but Picoult thwarts our expectations in unexpected ways....[A] telling portrait of a profoundly stressed family.
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Reviews
this was such a thoughtful book, yet good at the same time. one child is sick, and the other child cant be a doner. so the parents purposefully conceive a new daughter who will be able to be a doner to the sick one, and her life is really just mostly to live that role. the younger daughter sues to divorce her parents to get control of her body, a move which may kill her sister... and then there's the brother who is kind of ignored in all of it... it will leave you wondering what you'd do...
A GOOD BOOK ALL AROUND...THE ENDING MAY BE A BIT OVER DONE FOR SOME...BUT STILL A VERY THOUGHTFUL READ!!!
A riveting thought provoking story that presents all sides very well with an ending that certainly surpises the reader.
Well written and thought provoking story about the effect of a terminally ill child on lives of the rest of the family members.
Once you start, you can't put it down, every parent should read this book