The Memory Keepers Daughter
Edition: U.S. Large Print edition (1)
Publisher: Large Print Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Detroit, USA
Language: eng
Format: Softcover
Number of pages: 711
ISBN-13: 9781594131974
Copyright date: 2005
Description: 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 syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. Bur Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century—in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that long-ago winter night.
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