硃迪·皮考特，美國當代著名暢銷書作傢，小說傢。1992年齣版第一部小說以來，十五部作品無一不持續暢銷，甚至每有新作，必迅速登上《紐約時報》、《華盛頓郵報》、亞馬遜網站等暢銷書榜首位。作品涉及的尖銳話題．也迅速在全美國甚至全球引發激烈爭議。

作傢總能以超凡的敏銳捕捉新銳題材安樂死、器官移植、青少年自殺、剋隆、乾細胞……這些人類至今莫衷一是的話題，常常成為她書寫的焦點，常常使她筆下的人物，既極具濃鬱的倫理爭議，又背負深重的悲涼宿命。難得的是，作傢並非討論“問題”，而以綿密細緻的小說筆法編織精彩絕倫的感人情節，以深情靈動的語言和齣人意料的轉閤，寫盡人間至情。

"A major decision about me is being made, and no one's bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion." The only reason Anna was born was to donate her cord blood cells to her older sister. And though Anna is not sick, she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since she was a child. Anna was born for this purpose, her parents tell her, which is why they love her even more. But now that she has reached an age of physical awareness, she can't help but long for control over her own body and respite from the constant flow of her own blood seeping into her sister's veins. And so she makes a decision that for most would be too difficult to bear, at any time and at any age. She decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.