THIS STUNNING NOVEL BEGINS ON A WINTER NIGHT IN 1964,when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son,born first, Is perfectly healthy, but the doctor" immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. For" motives be tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision tbat will haunt all their lives for" ever. He asks his nurse, Carohne, to take the baby away to an institution.Instead, she disappears into another" city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeber's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted story of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptrve power of love.

Kim Edwards is the author of the short-story collection The Secrets of a Fire King, which was shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She has won both the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award and teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.