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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2005)

de Kim Edwards

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On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that long-ago winter night.… (més)
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Another popular book that disappointed me. I couldn't get past the first chapter or so. ( )
  Kim.Sasso | Aug 27, 2023 |
1964 delivers twins one down syndrom & gives to institution w/o telling wife
  ndfan19 | Aug 17, 2023 |
Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "A tad unbelievable and stretched, but an interesting tale of a Down's syndrome twin banished from her family in the early 1960's. Mother mourns the child she believes dead, thens spirals downward and away from her family. Child thrives as early advocates break through to the modern way of nurturing folks with Down's." ( )
  MGADMJK | Jul 26, 2023 |
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This book has touched my heart!The feels!
Way to go! 4.5 stars!

I bought this book back in December.I never got a chance to read it until now.I was busy with my exams and finally I took it out of the shelf this tuesday.After I started reading this book,I got so engrossed in it that I couldn't keep it down for even a moment.I wanted to know what would happen to the characters.

The things I loved about this book was:

1.The time and place it's set in.Beginning in the 1960s the book was very interesting.

2.How it skipped back and forth from the character's lives.It went from David's to Norah's to Caroline's to Paul's life,which were all very realistic.

3.It's life-like characters.I can imagine Dr.David Henry,Norah Henry,Paul Henry,Pheobe and Caroline so easily.While I read the book,I could imagine them talking and arguing or doing whatever they were doing.

4.The way of writing,which is pretty much what I said in point 2.

5.The happy ending!,which is the most important thing of all.I just love them.

Overall the book was a wonderful read.It was something I wanted to read after reading something tragic and beautiful like The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.I'm looking forward to read mor of Kim Edwards' works!

Happy reading!
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  GouriReads | Mar 21, 2023 |
El invierno de 1964, una repentina tormenta cubre de nieve el área de Lexington, Kentucky. Las carreteras son peligrosas, pero el doctor David Henry está decidido a conducir al hospital a su mujer, Norah, para que pueda dar a luz a su primer hijo. Pronto, se hace evidente que las carreteras son demasiado traicioneras y decide pararse en su propia consulta médica. Aquí, con la ayuda de la enfermera Caroline, puede asistir al parto de su hijo Paul. Pero, de manera inesperada, Norah pare una segunda criatura, una niña, Phoebe, en quien David reconoce inmediatamente el síndrome de Down. David le pide a Caroline que lleve a su pequeña hija a una institución y que nunca lo diga.
  Natt90 | Mar 20, 2023 |
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Kim Edwards's debut novel is a winner, and those who read THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER are going to want to read her next one. Highly recommended.
 
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They'd live their lives day by day, each one taking them another step away from their lost daughter.
... when he slid his arms around her again, he was thinking, I love you. I love you so much, and I lied to you. And the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.
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She did not know that her discarded clothes fluttered in a wind that he himself had set in motion so many years ago.
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On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that long-ago winter night.

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