"My Sister's Keeper named as summer reading selection"
By Leslie Griffith (The Chronicle)
Monday, April 3, 2006
The book selection committee for the Summer Reading program has
made its decision, picking Jodi Picoult's novel My Sister's Keeper
for incoming freshmen to read next August.
While Afghanistan and father-son relationships dominated summer reading discussions last year with Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, this year's selection touches on issues of medical ethics and focuses on a strong female character.
In the novel, a 13-year-old girl sues her parents for medical emancipation upon learning she was genetically created to be a donor for her leukemia-stricken older sister.
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While Afghanistan and father-son relationships dominated summer reading discussions last year with Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, this year's selection touches on issues of medical ethics and focuses on a strong female character.
In the novel, a 13-year-old girl sues her parents for medical emancipation upon learning she was genetically created to be a donor for her leukemia-stricken older sister.
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