En smakebit på en søndag - My Sisters Keeper

 

 

Det er søndag, og på bloggen Flukten fra virkeligheten har Mari en ukentlig utfordring hvor hun oppfordrer bloggleserne til å poste en smakebit - linje, avsnitt eller side - fra en bok som skal leses, eller som har gjort inntrykk.

 

Jeg har fått veldig sansen for romaner skrevet av engelske forfattere - ganske overraskende, for jeg har tidligere nesten kun lest krim - og jeg liker veldig godt romaner som muligens kan sammenlignes litt med chicklit- og feelgoodsjangeren, men med et litt alvorligere tema.

 

Boka jeg vil gi dere en smakebit av i dag er "My Sisters Keeper" av Jodi Picoult, mange av dere har kanskje sett filmen hvor blant annet Cameron Diaz er med - jeg har ikke sett den enda,  jeg har bestemt meg for å lese boka først.

 

 

 

 

Forlagets omtale (fra Hodder.co.uk)

 

Sara Fitzgerald's daughter Kate is just two years old when she is diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. Reeling with the helpless shock of it, Sara knows she will do anything - whatever it takes - to save her child.

 

Then the tests results come back time and again to show that no one in their family is a match for Kate. If they are to find a donor for the crucial bone marrow transplant she needs, there is only one option: creating another baby, specifically designed to save her sister. For Sara, it seems the ideal solution. Not only does Kate live, but she gets a beautiful new daughter, Anna, too.

 

Until the moment Anna hands Sara the papers that will rock her whole world. Because, aged thirteen, Anna has decided that she doesn't want to help Kate live any more. She is suing her parents for the rights to her own body.

 

 

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Og her kommer en smakebit, fra begynnelsen av boka:

 

 

"When I was little, the great mystery to me wasn't how babies were made, but why...

 

I was born for a very specific purpose, I was born because a scientist managed to hook up my mother's eggs and my father's sperm to create a specific combination of precious genetic material. My parent told me that they chose little embryonic me, specially, because I could save my sister Kate.

 

It made me wonder, though, what would have happened if Kate had been healthy? Chances are, I'd still be floating up in Heaven or wherever, waiting to be Attached to a body to spend some time on earth."