Great start and a sloooow fininsh

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	• The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 842 reviews view larger image
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Great premise, but lost steam

This book began very well. I liked the imagery on the night of the twins' birth, and how a quickly made decision (on the part of the doctor-father and later, the nurse) ended up impacting so many lives.
As the novel moved on, I appreciated the doctor's obsession with photography presented as an attempt to "freeze time" in order to keep it, as well as the mother's slew of affairs designed to provide her with the intimacy missing from her marriage.
Unfortunately, as the the book passed the half-way point, the secret itself became tedious and I was less interested in the outcome than I had been at the beginning. Overall, it was a good book, but not great.

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Great start and a sloooow fininsh

Memory Keeper's Daughter had a great beginning, the characters had depth and the story was intriguing. David and Norah Henry are happily expecting a baby on a cold snowy night in 1964. When they arrive at David Henry's medical office, the nurse who has agreed to meet them there tells them the doctor's car is stuck in a snow drift and won't be attending. After giving birth to a healthy baby boy, the nurse and David realize there is another baby. Norah is heavily sedated and does not realize that her second baby, a girl, was born alive and then handed to the nurse to take to an institution because she has Down's Syndrome.

It is a decision that will change all of their lives forever.

The story has a subtle pro-life message and I don't know if this is the intent of the author, but it is very effective. It is not "in your face" sort of message it is just that Phoebe, although born with Down's Syndrome, has a life that is as valuable as any other and in the end it is her life that mattered most in this story.

The unfortunate thing is that the book should have been wrapped up a lot sooner than it was. The characters grow tedious and boring as we plod through all the mundane years.

Same story in half the pages would have been an excellent read. An excellent start but by the end I just wanted to see how it wrapped up.

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