The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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Kim EdwardsÂ's stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every motherÂ'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, <I>The Memory KeeperÂ's Daughter</I> is an astonishing tale of redemptive love. BACKCOVER: “Edwards is a born novelist. . . . Rich with psychological detail and the nuances of human connection.”<BR> —<I>Chicago Tribune</I> <BR><BR> “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.”<BR> —Sue Monk Kidd <BR><BR> “Anyone would be struck by the extraordinary power and sympathy of <I>The Memory KeeperÂ's Daughter</I>.”<BR> —<I>The Washington Post</I> <BR><BR> “Kim Edwards has written a novel so mesmerizing that I devoured it. . . . <I>The Memory KeeperÂ's Daughter</I> has it all.”<BR> —Sena Jeter Naslund <BR><BR> “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.”<BR> —Jodi Picoult
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