Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper
God, I am really in a ridiculous number of book groups. This is for the library's book group dealing with various issues ("medical ethics" is the issue at hand here). It's about a thirteen year old girl who was conceived to be a bone marrow match for her sister with leukemia. When the girl decides to hire an attorney to sue for medical emancipation, all hell breaks loose. Told from the perspectives of all the main characters (except, interestingly, the dying girl), it's a riveting story (I read it all in one sitting), and there is one nice twist at the end. However, the last couple of chapters were totally ridiculous, and there was a tacked-on romantic subplot, both of which call for a seriously downgraded B-.
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