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, <I>The Memory Keeper's Daughter</I> is an astonishing tale of redemptive love. Kim Edwards http://lakenet.llcoop.org/search/X?Book+Club+in+a+Bag+The+Memory+Keeper's+Daughter+Edwards 112 2007-12-06T15:53:51-05:00 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.<br><a target="_blank" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/pdf/BookClubBag/MemoryKeepersDaughter'); " href="http://www.kdl.org/kdl/pdf/BookClubBag/MemoryKeepersDaughter.pdf">Download a discussion guide for this book</a><br><br><i>Bag includes 2 additional Large Print copies</i> 1511 0143037145