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  • Kim Edwards’s stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother’s silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes tha ... Continue

    Kim Edwards’s stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother’s silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and to keep her birth a secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is an astonishing tale of redemptive love.

    

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  • Amazing story of a woman's decision to rise her boss's disabled daughter (twin son was healthy) after he gave her the infant to drop off at an institution because the baby had Downs' Syndrome. Throughout the years she wrote to him about the progress of the child and he would send her money. It's a ... Continue

    Amazing story of a woman's decision to rise her boss's disabled daughter (twin son was healthy) after he gave her the infant to drop off at an institution because the baby had Downs' Syndrome. Throughout the years she wrote to him about the progress of the child and he would send her money. It's a sad and happy story. And incredibly written.

    

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  • Pretty bleah. The author was way too wordy and included an extreme amount of detail that no one actually could ever care about. The characters all seemed dull and unreal. I was never interested in any of them. Plot line was double-dull. It's not 1 star, because I finished it without too much pa ... Continue

    Pretty bleah. The author was way too wordy and included an extreme amount of detail that no one actually could ever care about. The characters all seemed dull and unreal. I was never interested in any of them. Plot line was double-dull. It's not 1 star, because I finished it without too much pain, but there was a night where I had to just put it down and read something else instead because I couldn't stand it any more for a while.

    

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• ― Deanna Kyre said on Apr 30, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  • Always love a book which makes me imagine what if that was me and what would I have done.

    

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  • This book was initially very difficult for me to get into but after about the first two thirds it finally got interesting. I am not so sure I wasn't just anxious to get it over.
    I would not recommend this book.

    

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Kim Edwards's stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and to keep her birth a secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is an astonishing tale of redemptive love. BACKCOVER: “Edwards is a born novelist. . . . Rich with psychological detail and the nuances of human connection.”
—Chicago Tribune

“Unfolds from an absolutely gripping premise, drawing you deeply and irrevocably into the entangled lives of two families and the devastating secret that shaped them both. I loved this riveting story.”
—Sue Monk Kidd

“Anyone would be struck by the extraordinary power and sympathy of The Memory Keeper's Daughter.”
—The Washington Post

“Kim Edwards has written a novel so mesmerizing that I devoured it. . . . The Memory Keeper's Daughter has it all.”
—Sena Jeter Naslund

“Kim Edwards has created a tale of regret and redemption, of honest emotion, of characters haunted by their past. This is simply a beautiful book.”
—Jodi Picoult

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