Finished: My Sister's Keeper (Picoult) An exceptionally beautiful and heartbreaking story about a couple who decides to have a third child, picking the IVF embryo that is an exact match to their two year old daughter who is diagnosed with a rare and deadly form of leukemia. Years later, when that baby, Anna, is 13 and her ill sister, Kate, is 16, and after Anna has been through numerous medical donation procedures for her sister, Anna brings a lawsuit against her parents to sue them for the right to make her own decisions about donating a kidney to Kate. Kate is finally out of hope when it comes to her cancer treatments, and to make matters worse, her kidneys are failing and she doesn't have long to live. What follows is the beautifully written, emotionally wrenching viewpoint of each party involved: Sara, the mother of both girls; Brian, the father of both girls; Jesse, the older brother of both girls who is spiraling out of control because when tested years ago, he was the one who wasn't able to save his baby sister; Kate, the dying sister; Anna, the donor sister; Campbell, the attorney Anna hires; and Laura, the guardian ad litem assigned to Anna. You will feel as conflicted as Anna does, feel as fiercely as Sara does, feel as protective as Brian does, and feel as hopeless as Jesse does at different times during the story. Just when all is said and done and the trial has been decided, and Anna confides in her lawyer about what she'd really like to do now, one of the biggest shocking endings I've ever read in a book happens and decides everything for everyone. I truly believe my mouth hung open as I read the remaining pages of the book after the shocking event. It's a story that will stay with me for a long time. I'm so thankful I never had to make any of the decisions the members of this family had to make! Thank you to my dear friend Marla for gifting me with this book! :-)