The Memory Keeper's Daughter
4 journalers for this copy...
It's pretty good. I have a special needs daughter, it's why I picked it up.
Journal Entry 2 by dturnip1 at Quince Orchard Library in Gaithersburg, Maryland USA on Monday, August 27, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (8/27/2007 UTC) at Quince Orchard Library in Gaithersburg, Maryland USA
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Found this on the book sale shelf at the Quince Orchard library. Will try to read it soon and leave it for someone else to catch.
Bringing to Kate who left her copy on an airplane. If she doesn't need it, it will be released at the Gaithersburg Book Festival with a gazillion other books.
I contacted melydia, who does still need the book. I'll take it to her at the convention planning meeting the first week of June.
I accidentally left my copy of this book on an airplane while I was still in the middle of reading it. Thanks so much for giving me this replacement copy - can't wait to see how it ends! :)
One snowy night in the mid-1960s, a woman gives birth to twins: a healthy boy, and a girl with Down's Syndrome. The doctor-husband, fearing further misery, tells his wife the daughter died at birth. The nurse, rather than following instructions to send the child to an institution to be raised, moves to another city to raise the child herself. Years pass, lives change. I admit I devoured this book over the course of about two days, drawn to the characters and the constant suspense of whether the truth will ever come out. But this is not a happy story. It is, at best, bittersweet. Well-written and beautiful, to be sure (though the repeated comparison between infant hands and stars/starfish grew a bit tiresome), but kind of a downer over all.
Journal Entry 8 by Melydia at Birdie's Cafe - 233 E. Main St. in Westminster, Maryland USA on Sunday, November 6, 2011
Released 12 yrs ago (11/5/2011 UTC) at Birdie's Cafe - 233 E. Main St. in Westminster, Maryland USA
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Took to the joint BCinDC/Carroll County meetup at Birdie's Cafe in Westminster, MD. It didn't come home with me, so it may have ended up on the OBCZ shelf in back. Safe journeys, little book!