"A major decision about me is being made, and no one's bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion." The only reason Anna was born was to donate her cord blood cells to her older sister. And though Anna is not sick, she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since she was a child. Anna was born for this purpose, her parents tell her, which is why they love her even more. But now that she has reached an age of physical awareness, she can't help but long for control over her own body and respite from the constant flow of her own blood seeping into her sister's veins. And so she makes a decision that for most would be too difficult to bear, at any time and at any age. She decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
作者簡介：
Jodi Picoult received an AB in creative writing from Princeton University and a master's degree in education from Harvard. She is the author of ten previous books and she lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
商品資料
作者： Jodi Picoult
出版社： Simon & Schuster UK
出版日期：2009-09-01ISBN/ISSN：141654917X
I love the book.
However it confused me at first.
When I reach the part that Anna decided to sue her parents for the rights for her only body, I get a bit furious. And I thought of Anna as a monstrous, cruel, selfish girl who are not willing to donate half her kidney to her dying sister. Nevertheless, later on I found out the purpose of her doing so, and I was so touched.
I have to admit that this book is mainly about therapeutic transplantation such as blood or bone marrow transplantation. And those proper noun sometimes stuck me, too.
But all in all this book is so gripping that you\’ll never get tired of it.
Every chapter in this book is written by different person that has somehow something to do with the main event in the book, and it is really interesting to know that how people have different views toward the same thing.
This is really a book worth reading.
Not only once, but again and again in a lifetime.
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