Kim Edwards

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January 01, 1958 in The United States

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http://www.memorykeepersdaughter.com/

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Literature & Fiction

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Kim Edwards grew up in Skaneateles, New York, in the heart of the Finger Lakes region. The oldest of four children, she graduated from Colgate University and the University of Iowa, where she received an MFA in Fiction and an MA in Linguistics. After completing her graduate work, she went with her husband to Asia, where they spent the next five years teaching, first on the rural east coast of Malaysia, then in a small city an hour south of Tokyo, and finally in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

During her time in Asia, Kim began to publish short fiction, and in 1990 her story “Sky Juice” won the Nelson Algren Award. Her stories and essays have since appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Anteaus, Story,...more

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Average rating: 3.48 · 231,376 ratings · 14,094 reviews · 10 distinct works

	The Memory Keeper's Daughter 3.48 avg rating — 227,934 ratings — published 2005 — 44 editions	My rating:
	The Lake of Dreams 3.19 avg rating — 2,602 ratings — published 2010 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Secrets of a Fire King 3.36 avg rating — 823 ratings — published 1997 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Un giorno mi troverai 2.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Lake of Dreams 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Memori Kiipa No Musume by Kim Edwards, 宮崎真紀 (翻訳) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	See Der Träumegekürzte Lesung by Kim Edwards, Anna Thalbach (Sprecher) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Le Lac des Rêves 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope by Luke Reynolds, Jennifer Reynolds (Editor), George Saunders (Foreword) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	RCA 28 16-Copy Mixed Prepack Id by Adrienne McDonnell, Lynn Sheene (Goodreads Author), Kim Edwards 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

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"A clue in a stained-glass window leads to a startling secret kept hidden for generations in The Lake of Dreams, a new novel from the author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter." ...More

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Quotes by Kim Edwards

“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.”
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“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

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“A moment might be a thousand different things.”
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