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A (science) book recommendation -

For the writing course I teach, I based the third essay assignment on Jodi Picoult's novel, My Sister's Keeper.

It's been a big hit. The students love it. Librarians are lauding it, including the science librarians here at JHU.

Here's what Picoult says about what inspired her book, which illustrates struggles of life in a family where one child has been cloned - as a spare parts donor - for another:

"Today's political and scientific battles over cloning and DNA and gene replacement therapy led me to think about some of what the future might hold, on a personal level, for people —and thus the story of Anna and Kate was born. In a way, I think of this book as Sophie's Choice for the new millennium. If you use one of your children to save the life of another, are you being a good mother… or a very bad one?"

A good winter read.


.MGW.