My Sisters Keeper is a novel of the Fitzgerald family's struggle to keep their eldest daughter Kate alive. Kate was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia as a young child and since, has been the only focus. Discovering the extensive transfusions and transplants that Kate will need to stay alive, Sara and Brian decided with the help of a medical team to genetically modify through IVF a daughter with the same genetic makeup as Kate to be her donor. Anna began donation pieces of her body to her sister Kate the day she was born. Now, by the age of thirteen, Anna has undergone multiple surgeries, transfusions, and shots to help her older sister Kate, fight an incurable disease. Anna feels as if she has never had the opportunity to live her own life, spending so much time in the hospital and not even being sick. As a teenager, she begins to discover the person she truly wants to become and realizes that she has never had a say in any decision regarding her own body. Anna's need for freedom caused her to make a decision that could tear her entire family apart. Anna made the choice to fight her family in court for medical emancipation: the right to make her own decisions for her body. The trial caused much distress but resulted in the realization that Anna was being forced into being a donor for her sister and was never asked if she was comfortable to be undergoing so many operations. When granted medical emancipation, Anna was gifted the right to make her own decisions regarding her body. Anna could still decide to be a donor for Kate, but her parents could no longer make that decision for her.