<![CDATA[The Memory Keeper's Daughter]]>

false <![CDATA[The Memory Keeper's Daughter]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175544221m/526663.jpg 10441 31 Kim Edwards's stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother'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, The Memory Keeper's 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 Keeper's Daughter." -- The Washington Post "Kim Edwards has written a novel so mesmerizing that I devoured it.... The Memory Keeper's 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 2868431 book 2005 The Memory Keeper's Daughter total:83114|5:13698|4:27484|3:26846|2:10868|1:4215| 83114 284929 116666 9894 1 98 false false Fri Mar 23 10:23:26 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 08:45:05 -0700 2007
The characters were shallow and unlikable. In particu...more...]]> 4 29 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Apr 24 17:11:23 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 24 17:12:05 -0700 2007
What fascinates me about this book is what it has to say about "secrets."...more...]]> 1 26 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 06 08:44:50 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 08:44:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 19 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 14:38:24 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 14:58:23 -0700 2007
I plowed through the first fifty or so pages in an airport earlier this week and prematurely told several people that it is quite good.

It is not.

While the writing is okay and the main plot line is fairly interesting:

* The aut...more...]]> 4 10 false false Sun Mar 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 12:52:01 -0800 2008 Sun May 25 22:32:58 -0700 2008
I was pleasantly surprised to find that I liked this book quite a bit, and here's why:

1. The story was fascinating! What would I have done in that situation? It ...more...]]> 1 10 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 03 21:31:33 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 21:31:33 -0700 2008
From the beginning of the novel there were little details that bother...more...]]> 2 12 false false Wed May 16 06:42:35 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 11:51:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 11 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 10:57:21 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 11:17:12 -0800 2009
I began reading this book and fell in love with it. From the beg...more...]]> 5 7 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Jun 20 14:36:28 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 16 19:06:39 -0700 2008 Dark Trees in the Heart

The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a story about a secret--a terrible, life-altering secret running central to the story and in the lives of the characters. In spite of spanning only twenty-five years, it has an epic feel. A lot happens. We first meet Norah and David...more...]]> 1 5 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 20:58:27 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 09:34:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 6 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 00:58:58 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 21:59:59 -0700 2007
Reading this book was like an up-hill battle for me. I have looked forward to reading it for so long and was expecting great things based on all the praise-worthy reviews on the book jacket. Boy was i disappointed! The plot and synopsis of the story had such excell...more...]]> 2 5 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 15 06:35:34 -0700 2007 Tue May 15 06:47:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 4 false false Sun Aug 12 18:35:52 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 18:54:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 6 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 10:14:58 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 19:22:28 -0700 2007 I thought this story was very upper-middle class white suburbia. I don't know how to explain it any better, but I thought that there were these tiny sorrows within the story that were turned into gigantic dramas (so I guess it reflects the overall narrative in that...more...]]> 3 4 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Mar 04 15:23:59 -0800 2007 Sun Mar 04 15:31:53 -0800 2007
(let's see if I can remember all I wrote)...more...]]> 3 4 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Aug 19 09:33:17 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 14:16:48 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 3 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 19:06:50 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 14:57:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false true Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 11:21:30 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 17 09:10:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 20:53:32 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 10 13:43:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 3 true false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Aug 22 14:11:05 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 16 19:06:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=526663