The Memory Keeper's Daughter

by Kim Edwards | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0143037145 Global Overview for this book
Registered by dturnip1 of Rockville, Maryland USA on 8/23/2007
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4 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by dturnip1 from Rockville, Maryland USA on Thursday, August 23, 2007
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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Journal Entry 3 by mom-oyster from Gaithersburg, Maryland USA on Saturday, September 8, 2007
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.

Journal Entry 4 by mom-oyster at Gaithersburg, Maryland USA on Friday, May 14, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (5/15/2010 UTC) at Gaithersburg, Maryland USA

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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.

Journal Entry 5 by wingKateKintailwing from Burke, Virginia USA on Monday, May 17, 2010
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.

Journal Entry 6 by wingMelydiawing from Rockville, Maryland USA on Sunday, May 23, 2010
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! :)

Journal Entry 7 by wingMelydiawing at -- Geocaches, Virginia USA on Friday, October 14, 2011
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 wingMelydiawing 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!

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