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 enlarge | Author: Kim Edwards
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  873 reviews
Sales Rank: 1748
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0143037145
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780143037149
ASIN: 0143037145
Publication Date: May 30, 2006
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 Well-written, but left a question January 26, 2006
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I empathized with Caroline's decision, but I can't help but think she would have had more emotional conflict over hiding a child from its mother all those years.
I believed that she loved and protected Phoebe, but she was living a lie. It wasn't the same situation as an adoptive mother. Her life actually was much better after her act of well-intentioned deception - nice man, nice job, someone even gives her a house.
I just expected some kind of bad karma, for lack of a better term, for the deception.
 Best book I've read this year..... December 10, 2005
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book was absolutely wonderful. It was gut wretching and life affirming at the same time. I loved it from the very first page. Buy this book and buy one for a friend too. It would make a wonderful Christmas present.
Great Book! December 6, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This story line sounded realy intriguing. I'm glad that I read it, because I really enjoyed the book. The writing was great and the story was believable, especially since it initially started in the early 60s. I didn't like David, but I pitied him, which helped me stay engaged. Try the book, I think you'll like it!
 No Memories for Me December 3, 2005
52 out of 58 found this review helpful
I found THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER to be disappointing for me. I chose it for the story which sounded wonderful, but I found the writing tedious. The story didn't move for me. It seemed to be in a midst of a fog with far too many details about things that didn't matter and not enough about things that did interest me. After awhile, I didn't care if I finished it or not and started other books, which I completed, before returning to this one. I wished I'd checked it out at the library rather than spent money on it, quite honestly.
Read this, read this, read this! November 26, 2005
485 out of 542 found this review helpful
I don't read a lot of fiction and I most especially do not read romances. I'm not sure how this book is categorized but it is the most compulsively readable, emotional, and memorable book I've read since "Gone With the Wind" over 40 years ago. This is an epic story of a doctor who, in an emotional moment and with all his medical knowledge telling him to protect those he loves, makes a decision that affects him and everyone around him forever. On a blizzardly night in 1964, David Henry helps his wife give birth to twins, one a perfect boy and the other a girl with Downs Syndrome. At that time, imperfect children were "put away" in institutions where they died young and families and friends spoke of them in shame-filled whispers, if at all. David grew up with a very sickly sister whose death at age 12 ended all meaningful life for his parents. With all good intentions of sparing his wife and new son the pain he and his parents endured, he made a fateful decision and told his wife the little girl had died at birth. It was a decision that, once made, could not be redeemed nor remedied. Time inexorably moves away from that moment but, instead of becoming distant, it grows tentacles that seize their beings and influence everything for the next three decades. We learn a photograph can capture a moment but it cannot tell you what encompasses it, what came before and after. It cannot effect change, it cannot correct. One moment, one choice, and an ever-widening circle of consequences, many roads taken and many not.
The writing in The Memory Keeper's Daughter is so well-articulated, the story itself is so engrossing and so different from any I have read before, that hard as I tried to remain disaffected, about 100 pages before the end I felt actual pain knowing there was a last page. As I came to know every nuance of these characters, I wanted to reach into the pages and tell them everything, something, anything, to stop time, to take a different road and change the past, then go on again. Honestly, I have never felt quite this way about a book before.
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