The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Penguin (Non-Classics) - Penguin (Non-Classics)
Release date: 2006-05-30
Paperback
Author: Kim Edwards
Popular American Fiction, Fiction, Fiction - General, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Suspense, General, Psychological
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Date undefinedI thought that this book looked and sounded like one that I wouldn't be able to put down. For the first few chapters, I was very interested in it. After that, it became difficult for me to read. Not because I couldn't understand it or because it was poorly written, but because it was boring and a little predictable. It wasn't the worst book that I've read in recent months, but it was far from being the best. I'm not likely to purchase another of Kim Edwards' books in the future.
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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Sometimes the choices we make in the name of protecting someone we love can cause the object of our love more harm than good. So it is with Dr. David Henry.
When twins, a boy and a girl, are born to his wife, and the girl has Downs Syndrome, he decides it would be better for his wife to think the child died at birth. He puts the infant in the hands of his nurse to take to an institution. Instead, she keeps the girl and the child becomes a blessing to her and her husband. In the doctor's family, the wife cannot come to terms with her loss and her husband cannot forget the child he abandoned and both contribute to the breakdown of their marriage. The Memory Keeper's Daughter is an excellent story of both heartbreak and happiness and the validation of Downs Syndrome children as loving, happy individuals and, although they may need extra care, they can be as much a blessing to a family as any child.
Eunice Boeve, author of Ride a Shadowed Trail
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Date undefinedI had high hopes for this book and was disappointed from the beginning. Although descriptive, it failed to evoke emotion. I found myself wanting to be finished with the book. I love books of all types, but I want them to entertain me. This one didn't.
