I tried to put myself into the shoes of Anna while reading this novel. Will I donate a kidney to any of my family members? Will I litigate a lawsuit fighting for my body’s right? There is no answer to it.

I think what Anna wants is not to stop helping Kate, but to get away from the endless giving without asking for her agreement. She wants the right to decide if she would like to donate her stem cells , pallets, a kidney, ect. or not. She hopes her parents could respect her will, but not treat her like a donating machine, which she thought was the reason she was brought to this world.

      I don’t like the mother character, Sara. I guess the author tried to make us feel apathetic about Sara’s situation by spending a lot of chapters, depicting how she cared about and suffered from Kate’s disease. But all I saw is how she tried to be a good mother for Kate, but not for Anna though she claimed she loves them equally. I wonder how she feels when all the time she tried to avoid losing one daughter but turned out losing another one in the end. Isn’t it so ironic?.