The Memory Keeper's Daughter

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Call Number: BOCD Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Performed by Ilyana Kadushin.
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.

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BEST BOOK EVER SO FAR submitted by MarilynG on December 9, 2008, 11:03am Did you knew that this book is coming out as a movie?

Long, but doable on cd submitted by sarai koster-mockeridge on June 19, 2015, 5:58pm I started this book last year, but it was to slow moving to hold my attention. The writing is studding, but every single detail is treated with the same amount of importance and infused with meaning, so it becomes bogged down. I was looking for a book to listen to on a 7 hour car ride, and picked it up. It works well as a book on tape because if you tune out, you don't miss much of the plot, just the flowery descriptions! I will need another 7 hour car trip to finish it though!

Slow, Good for certain audiences submitted by jdybs on June 17, 2017, 4:11pm Very slow, lots of time where characters are reflecting and deliberating. Great psychological development of characters and relationships. If you like reading about dysfunctional relationships, psychology, and how people with Down's Syndrome were viewed in the 1960s, you might like it. I found it depressing and plodding.