My Sister's Keeper Resources
Websites
Picoult's website has an in-depth conversation with the author about My Sister's Keeper, what inspired it, and what Jodi thinks her fan's reaction might be.
Want an excerpt of the novel? The publisher's website has everything else you might need from My Sister's Keeper. Except a kidney.
Movie or TV Productions
Critics were split down the middle, kind of like the Fitzgerald family, about the movie adaptation of this book.
Roger Ebert is one of the critics who enjoyed the story. We have no idea if he read the book, but it would be a logistical feat to flip the pages with two thumbs up…
Articles and Interviews
Jodi reveals in this interview that she was not happy with the change made to the ending of My Sister's Keeper. Did they really chuck her off the set?
How do Jodi's characters seem so real? Does she have multiple personalities?
Jodi thinks the reason the film adaptation didn't so well is because they changed the ending. What do you think?
Video
In this PBS clip, Picoult talks about the ethics behind the Fitzgerald family's choices in My Sister Keeper, and a few other dilemmas from her books.
This interviewer is not only lucky enough to get to chat with the film's three leading ladies, but he also reads one of our favorite quotes from the book.
This video has barely a thing to do with My Sister's Keeper, but Picoult's ghost-hunting story is pretty spookily awesome. Spawesome? Awespooky?
Audio
In this podcast, Jodi talks about her own My Sister's Keeper-esque choice that she had to make regarding her own son Jake.
My Sister's Keeper is talked about across the pond, too, in this book club chat on BBC Radio.
Images
Picoult puts her characters under a microscope, so here's what Kate's blood would look like under a microscope.
Here's the movie poster. Do the characters look like you imagine them?
Why can't we find the setting of Upper Darby on the map? Where do you think it would be located if it were real?