Since November 2009Chick Lit Classic: My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Posted on Thursday, November 18th, 2010 by Leah
Chick Lit Classics is a new feature on Chick Lit Reviews where we highlight the books we feel are classics of the chick lit genre. Feel free to discuss our choices in the comments section!
Whilst Jodi Picoult isn’t exactly Chick Lit, I do enjoy reading her novels and I know a lot of Chick Lit fans do, too. The first book I read of Jodi’s was My Sister’s Keeper and I thought it was a stunning novel. It moved me to tears and the revelations at the end literally made me gasp! It’s definitely a must read for all fiction fans, because it’s a book that definitely stands the test of time. My Sister’s Keeper was also turned into a movie, starring Cameron Diaz, and is well worth watching. I’ll tell you why when I do a Chick Flick post for it! It’s safe to say it had me in tears!
‘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 leukaemia 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.
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“Cat McCabe is 29 and the youngest of three sisters brought up by their Uncle Django-a man with unusual culinary tastes (“I made pizza tonight,” Django says proudly. “I had some bread that was going a bit off so I tore it up, added a little oil and beaten egg and a drop of ketchup, formed it into a base and baked the bugger. I added a topping of sardines, chicken liver, a little more ketchup and some Stilton.”)-after their mother ran off with a cowboy from Denver.
Emma is like every girl in the world. She has a few little secrets. Secrets from her mother: 1.I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom to Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben Hur. …From her boyfriend: 2. I’m a size twelve. Not a size eight, like Connor thinks. 3. I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. …From her colleagues: 4. When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day) 5. It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times. …Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world: 6. My G string is hurting me. 7. I faked my Maths GCSE grade on my CV. 8. I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is… …until she spills them all to a stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger…
read A Season to Remember and want to know more about Andie, Jin and co., then do pick up a copy of Anyone But Him!
