Tapers to its end

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	• The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 827 reviews view larger image
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Great Book!

I LOVED this book - I thought it was a very interesting storyline. I recommend this to all readers - it was hard to put it down. I like the way Edwards writes - very clear - makes you feel like you are part of the character. A must-read!

Tapers to its end

"The Memory Keeper's Daughter" gripped me right away on the first page. The characters were compelling, their motives recognizable, and the writing and plot well under control. However, the twists of the plot and the actions of the characters, I think, got free of their author's control by the end of the book, with events springing from nowhere and the thread of the characters' thoughts lost over the gaps of years. I got the sense that Edwards also had a great deal of difficulty determining whether her novel would conclude in an aesthetically pleasing, symmetrical manner, or whether, more realistically, she would allow loose ends flapping and the reader's desire for closure unsatisfied.

My greatest disappointment with this novel is that, despite a claim for fair and equal treatment and love for children with disabilities at the heart of the story, Edwards never fleshes out the character of Phoebe. Though it is the presence or the lack of Phoebe that propels each of the twin stories, we never really know what Phoebe is thinking, how she interprets her life. This discomfort undermines many of the sentiments expressed by other characters.

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