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REVIEWS: The Memory
Keeper's Daughter
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GoodReads
Book Companion
#1 New York Times bestseller, The Memory Keeper’s
Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives,
familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love. Kim
Edwards’s stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in
Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to
deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly
healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter
has Down syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah,
his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all
of their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the
baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret.
Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child
herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over
a quarter of a century—in which these two families, ignorant of
each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that
winter night long ago.
Characters: 62. Amazon rating: 4 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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