my sister's keeper is a 2004 novel written by jodi picoult. set in rhode island, it tells the story of a 13-year-old girl named anna fitzgerald, a "savior sibling", who sues her parents so that they can no longer legally control her medical decisions once she learns she is expected to donate a kidney to her older sister kate, who is dying from leukemia, cancer of the blood and bone marrow. it is written in first person, from the perspectives of several main characters. in 2008, the book was adapted into a movie.