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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Large Print)

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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Large Print)

by Kim Edwards

Large Print Press | February 1, 2007 | Trade Paperback

Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son is perfectly healthy, but his daughter has Down's syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect his wife, he asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, the nurse disappears into another city to raise the child herself.

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    Rating: 4/5

    So Sad...

    Sandra Kuhar

    3 years ago

    ...but a beautiful story. Another one that I couldn't put down.

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    Rating: 4/5

    a good read

    Kyla

    3 years ago

    I liked this book. The lesson of the story was that when we deceive others, we really deceive ourselves. David Henry deceives his wife, believing he was protecting her. In trying to preserve the perfect life he had crafted for himself, he ends up destroying it. It is heartbreaking.

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    Rating: 5/5

    Emotional and heart-wrenching!

    Cheryl Kaye Tardif

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    3 years ago

    The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a story of love, deception, tragedy and possible redemption. When orthopedic surgeon Dr. David Henry is forced to deliver his own twin babies during a freak snowstorm in Kentucky, he is faced with a dilemma. His son is born healthy, while his daughter is born with Down Syndrome.

    Recognizing the battle that lays ahead for a handicapped child and for his family, he makes a life-changing decision--one that will affect many lives in the end. He tells his nurse, Caroline Gill, to take his daughter to a home for disabled children and the deception begins. He explains to his wife that their daughter died at birth and one lie leads to another. Then Caroline disappears with the baby and David is haunted by guilt and fear.

    The story reveals each character's reaction to the baby girl's "death". The son Paul would give anything to have his twin back; Norah, David's wife, mourns the loss of a baby and this affects their marriage. There is a strong message in this powerful and compelling story, a message of faith, trust and hope...but most of all love.

    After losing my son 4 hours after his birth, this novel brought back poignant memories and tugged at the pit of my stomach. The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a novel worth reading and crying over. And it is one that stays with you long after you've put it down.

    As an author myself I appreciate a book that makes me 'feel' things, as that is my goal with my own novels. Kim Edwards has certainly accomplished that goal. This is a 2-Kleenex box book! Kudos, Kim!

    ~Cheryl Kaye Tardif, author of Whale Song

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    Rating: 4/5

    It was Good

    Lisa H

    5 years ago

    The book was good I was a little disappointed with the ending. I think it could have ended better. I enjoyed reading it

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About the Book

Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son is perfectly healthy, but his daughter has Down's syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect his wife, he asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, the nurse disappears into another city to raise the child herself.

About the Author

Kim Edwards received an MFA in Fiction from Colgate University and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Iowa. After completing her graduate work, she and her husband taught on the rural east coast of Malaysia, then in a small city an hour south of Tokyo, and finally in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. While in Asia, she started writing and publishing short fiction. Her story, Sky Juice, won the Nelson Algren Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Anteaus, Story, and The Paris Review and have received a National Magazine Award for Excellence in Fiction and a Pushcart Prize. Her other works include the short story collection The Secrets of a Fire King and a novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter, which won the Kentucky Literary Award for Fiction in 2005. She also received a Whiting Writers' Award in 2002. She is a graduate of the Iowa's Writers' Workshop and currently teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.

Trade Paperback

715 Pages, 5.7 x 8.44 x 1.36 in

February 1, 2007

Large Print Press

English


159413197X
9781594131974

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