This book is about a family that has three children, the middle child having a rare form of cancer. The couple decides to have a third child and pretty much have her genetically made to be a perfect donor match for her sister so she will always have blood, bone marrow, organs, etc. that can be used to save the ill daughter. The youngest daughter is 13 when her parents want her to donate a kidney to save her sister and she decides to sue her parents for medical emancipation so she can decide whether or not she wants to donate her blood or organs to her sister, not her parents. But the real reason she sues her parents comes out at the end of the book, and I won't share it so that I don't spoil the story line.
The family's whole life really revolves around the ill daughter and when she gets sick, the parents always focus on her and kind of ignore the other two children. It's really sad to think that if that family were real, that those two kids would feel so unloved and unimportant. But the relationship between the two daughters is really touching and sweet. The movie actually ends differently from the book (at least that's what I've heard) and I wish the author would've ended the book the same way they decided to end the movie.
It was an easy read, pretty interesting, but there is language and a few intimate scenes. I wouldn't mind seeing the movie just to compare the two.
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I have a lot of the same feelings about this book. I felt like the family got so caught up in her illness that they lost sight of what is really important in life, which I personally don't think is just whether or not someone dies. Jodi Picoult is a great author, though. I really wish she didn't love the f-word so much so that I could read more of her stuff.
This book made for very interesting discussions at our book club in June. It was an intriguing story, but I hated reading the language. And we did go see the movie as a book club, and I am sad to say it was a total let down. It does end totally different, but there were a lot of other things that were missing. One good thing about the movie, though, is that the language was a big improvement from the book!
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