The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards
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Author: Kim EdwardsEdition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2005-06-23
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Amazon Remainders Account
Book Reviews of The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Book Review: Good plot, too much detail
Summary: 3 Stars
The idea of this story grabbed me - the twin with Down's Syndrome being given away in secret - but the truth is one could have as much satisfaction reading the very beginning & the very end. The middle 80% is filled with details (Rosemary, all the camera details, affairs, Paul running away...) that are all just minor & boring details - yet they fill the book. Truthfully, I'm giving it 3 stars because I actually enjoyed reading it & could not wait to see what happens at the end & the writing is very good - but it's almost 2 1/2 stars because the only action in the book is in the beginning & the very end.
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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