朱迪·皮考特，美国当代著名畅销书作家，小说家。1992年出版第一部小说以来，十五部作品无一不持续畅销，甚至每有新作，必迅速登上《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、亚马逊网站等畅销书榜首位。作品涉及的尖锐话题．也迅速在全美国甚至全球引发激烈争议。

作家总能以超凡的敏锐捕捉新锐题材安乐死、器官移植、青少年自杀、克隆、干细胞……这些人类至今莫衷一是的话题，常常成为她书写的焦点，常常使她笔下的人物，既极具浓郁的伦理争议，又背负深重的悲凉宿命。难得的是，作家并非讨论“问题”，而以绵密细致的小说笔法编织精彩绝伦的感人情节，以深情灵动的语言和出人意料的转合，写尽人间至情。

"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.