Books: Her Sister's Keeper

Olivia Hunt, 34, is a loser. She lost her job at Universal Studios after the movie she worked on--Lloyd, the Hamster--flopped at the box office. Her dream project, a film adaptation of Don Quixote, is going nowhere. Her boyfriend Michael recently bailed on her. And she just noticed a mustache hair on her upper lip. "Jimmy Stewart," she writes to a friend, "had a helluva lot more to live for when he tried to off himself in It's a Wonderful Life."

And that's before she gets the bad news: her younger sister Madeleine, who has everything to live for, has leukemia....

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