(448 pages)
"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.
I loved this so much. At first i thought that it was going to be reall preachy and biased, but I soon realised that it wasn't! phew!
the story is told from the perspective of all the key characters including Anna, her parents, brother and Lawyer, and the story builds up in layers looking at the issue at hand from different angles.
At times the tale is veryu harrowing, and at others I found myself giggling away (especially at Jesse's attempts at flirting), but overall it is simply grippping.
A lot of people have said they felt let-down by the ending, but I think that it was kind of fitting, destiny and fate and all that. I don't want to spoil it here, but read it and you'll see what I mean :)
This is a book that I cannot recommend highly enough. READ IT... NOW!!!!!!
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