My Sister’s Keeper: A Brutal Look at Extreme Parenting When Cancer is in the Family

“My Sister’s Keeper” was written by Jodi Picoult depicting the emotional journey of a family with cancer. In real life, when one member has cancer, the whole family is afflicted. If you’ve read any of Jodi Picoult’s books, they tend to be narrated by the characters as they deal with some uncomfortable facets of life. Seeing life struggles through the eyes of someone else can help us see our own path more clearly. In this way, “My Sister’s Keeper” struck a deep cord within each person in the audience at my showing. My rating: $7.75 (1.-10.).One of Picoult’s first books, ‘The Lovely Bones’ has the protagonist narrating the events up to, through, and after her untimely death. I enjoyed the book overall while still not being gripped as I would have desired. For me, it was rather like reading a terrible newspaper account of a tragedy mixed with the girl’s diary.I must divest that I work with severely afflicted children for a living, which has taken some of the horror of it all away. As othe...