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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Edwards, Kim
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Kim Edwardss stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mothers 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 Keepers 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 Keepers Daughter. The Washington Post Kim Edwards has written a novel so mesmerizing that I devoured it. . . . The Memory Keepers 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

AUTHOR BIO
Kim Edwards is the author of the short-story collection The Secrets of a Fire King, which was shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She has won both the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award and teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.

MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0143037145
ISBN(13-digit): 9780143037149
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: bl2006016283
Book Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 401
Paper Weight (lb): 0.68 lb

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