The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards
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Author: Kim EdwardsEdition: Paperback
Published: 2006-05-30
ISBN: 0143037145
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Reviews of The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Book Review: Brutal read
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this book, in part, because the reviews suggested it was a good read that was riveting and hard to put down. I was leaving on a cross-country flight and wanted something to keep my mind occupied as I flew. Usually I can finish a book on a long flight, but this was so brutally laborious to read that I had to put it down. I continued to read a bit here and there throughout my 5 day stay and finally finished it upon returning home. I kept thinking it had to get better. Well, it didn't. Besides traversing a difficult writing style, there seemed to be inconsistencies in the author's writing - as if she hadn't quite figured out who the characters were. Save yourself some time and money, and find another book.
Summary of The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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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