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Elena asked this question about The Memory Keeper's Daughter:
i don't understand - how did Nora have a memorial for the daughter if there was no body?! How did they explain the missing baby body and why there couldn't be a funeral?! What did Nora think - where did the baby's body go?!
Natalia I think part of Nora tried to mitigate her sentence by making a monument of the baby she never knew. I don't think a body is needed for this. And I th…moreI think part of Nora tried to mitigate her sentence by making a monument of the baby she never knew. I don't think a body is needed for this. And I think too she was very concerned to want to even see the body of her supposedly dead baby. Never know how the mother reacts when told that your newborn baby has died. Not all equally react.(less)
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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