is my sister's keeper based on a true story

The critically-acclaimed novel 'My Sister's Keeper' by Jodi Picoult, is not in any way a reflection of a true story. It is entirely the product of the author's fertile imagination. This story of moral complexity and compassion is characterised by Picoult's own particular gift for creating domestic tragedy.

Its theme—the younger sister conceived so that she might provide bone marrow for her critically ill elder sibling—came to Picoult from a news story she read. But the people and situations are all figments of her imagination.

Technically no. Jodi Picoult wrote the emotionally compelling book "My Sister's Keeper without relying too heavily on real-life events. Rather than try to make the book match actual events or people, Jodi Picoult relied on something larger than truth to create it. She cobbled together this strange book from her own crazy ideas, not something that has already happened.

After reading a news item about a child conceived to be a donor for the eldest one (and who died with him or when his health recovered), she singlehandedly brought forth this heartbreaking tale set in motion between loved ones that are part of close unit.

Then it boils over with its omnipotent speaker these disparate elements and becomes finally readable to anyone interested in human dilemmas anywhere--without exception! Before letting it go out into the world to stand alone there: "My sister's got cancer."

'My Sister's Keeper' isn't a true story. It's a gripping narrative from the mind of author Jodi Picoult.

Okay, Direct from the creative pen of Jodi Picoult, 'My Sister's Keeper' is fiction.When the core idea of a child conceived to save an older sibling was drawn from an actual news article Picoult stumbled across, the storyline, characters and circumstances are completely products of her fertile imagination.