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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. more
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- Posted: Sep-17-2009
Delicately, Profoundly Beautiful
It takes Kim Edwards a little longer than some others would have taken to tell the same tale, but it is in the delicate details of this novel that lies the true beauty of The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Utterly beautiful descriptions of emotion and art and pain and love made me savor the story...
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- Posted: Sep-13-2009
I enjoyed it.
I did enjoy this novel. While David the father, the doctor, the husband who made a terrible decision the night his twins were born, as mad as I was at him, he felt he was doing the best thing, based on his own grief and trauma he experienced as a Teenager. If he had the faith that his family...
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- Posted: Sep-12-2009
A decent read
I read this book for my book club. It is a decent read. The plot is unusual and the story moves at a quick enough pace. Others have described the storyline, etc. so I won't. I found the characters likeable but flawed -- so they are realistic/believable. There are some quirks with the writing. For...
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- Posted: Sep-07-2009
Realism makes this work
From one man's fateful decision made on a stormy winter night, Kim Edwards creates a pretty compelling 401-page story spanning two decades. What keeps this book from becoming a slogging soap opera is the realism of her characters. After the initial event, which sets the rest of the story in...
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- Posted: Aug-03-2009
I only finished it because its the only reading matieral I brought on the plane :(
It started out well enough but I have to agree with the other reviews, the book was too focused on making the Father the bad guy while the women play "victim".Two stars because it had potential and was hard to put down during the initial chapters.
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- Posted: Jul-21-2009
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Review
This book was really great because it showed the power of relationships and how one decision can change your life. You may think that you are doing something good, but your decision can hurt someone and thier life forever. This situation is demonstrated through the story - The Memory Keeper's...
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- Posted: Jul-20-2009
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
I found this book a little hard to read at first, because I could believe that someone would do that, especially a doctor. However, I felt that the book became more heartwarming as it went on. I also felt that it was very well-written.
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- Posted: Jul-19-2009
Loved This Book!
What a wonderful way to start my summer reading. I was reading another book that I just couldn't get into, and two co-workers suggested this one. I love how the author builds a story around one tragic decision to tell a lie. As the story comes to an end, I cried not for Norah, but for David...
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- Posted: Jul-17-2009
meh...
I think that this book has a great theme, from what I read, but it moved incredibly slow. I could not really connect to any of the characters, no matter what angle I was looking at! I thoroughly enjoy reading books of all kinds and one of my biggest regrets is not finishing one, but I definitely...
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- Posted: Jan-18-2009
Major let down....
I was expecting so much more from this book. I bought it because it was on the New York Times Best Sellers List. It was extremely boring and a huge let down. There was not one compelling moment in the book. The author even managed to make the emotional character moments boring and diluted. The...
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