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The memory keeper's daughter / Kim Edwards. --
Record details
- ISBN: 0143037145 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780143037149 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: x, 401, 13 p.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin, 2006, c2005.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Reader's guide inside"--Spine. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 16.50 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Twins > Fiction. Down syndrome > Fiction. Abandoned children > Fiction. Fathers and daughters > Fiction. Brothers and sisters > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Edwar | 31681002629020 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twin daughter during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from the baby's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the child. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 100,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twins during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from their baby daughter's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the child. - Penguin Putnam
A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeperâs Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love
Kim Edwardsâs stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down 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, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a centuryâin which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that winter night long ago.
A family drama, The Memory Keeperâs Daughter explores every mother's silent fear: What would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? It is also an astonishing tale of love and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets are finally uncovered.
