Intro to My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult was born May 19, 1966. She wrote her first story at age five, studied writing at Princeton University, and graduated in 1987. Immediately after graduating college, she landed a variety of jobs, but mastered a degree  in education from Harvard University. She is married and has three children. Jodi Picoult lives in New Hampshire with her family. Most of her novels are centered around family, and relationships. My Sister's Keeper, is a story about a young girl named Anna who has a sister named Kate who is diagnosed with cancer. All of Anna's life she has been Kate's backup for surgeries, transfusions and shots. Anna has to decide whether or not she wants full say of what she does with her body, even if her sister is at risk of death.