Meet the Cast
Anna Fitzgerald
Born This Way If we had to pick a main character out of the seven narrators in this book, kind of like picking a kickball captain, we'd pick Anna. She's the first voice we hear, and the whole court...
Campbell Alexander
Campbell's StewCampbell Alexander is Anna's attorney, the one she hires to sue her own parents. He agrees, maybe because of his own unresolved parental issues, and because he's a nice guy on the in...
Sara Fitzgerald
Strangers with KidneysThe Fitzgerald family matriarch is a former civil attorney with one sick daughter and… um… a few other kids that she doesn't seem to give two wet farts about.Many of Sara'...
Julia Romano
The GuardianThe characters of My Sister's Keeper feel like they could be divided into two categories: those who hurt (Jesse, Sara), and those who help. Julia is one of the helpers, saying point-bla...
Brian Fitzgerald
Fahrenheit 451 Brian Fitzgerald is the dad of the family. He's a firefighter who saves people and speaks in a lot of metaphors, like "The safety of the rescuer is of a higher priority than the safe...
Jesse Fitzgerald
Don't You Want to Know Why We Keep Starting Fires?Jesse is the Fitzgerald's oldest, and most invisible, child. Kate has leukemia, Anna "gets" to donate blood and plasma and marrow, and Jesse… wel...
Kate Fitzgerald
Sick and TiredKate is The Sick One. She has "acute promyelocytic leukemia" (1.1.18) and is dying from the moment we meet her until almost the very end of the book. She's sick and tired of being sic...
Minor Characters
There are a handful of other characters we should mention. The judge for Anna's case is Judge DeSalvo, who not only is not Joan Cusack in the book, but is male. He had a twelve-year-old daughter wh...