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[Memory Keeper's Daughter]는 비극적이고 가슴 아픈 한 가족의 이야기를 담고 있는 책입니다.
1964년 눈보라 치는 어느날... 의사인 데이빗 헨리는 자신의 아이를 직접 받게 됩니다. 아내가 출산한 아이는 쌍둥이였습니다. 먼저 태어난 아들은 완벽하게 건강했지만, 다음으로 태어난 딸은 다운증후군임을 보자마자 알 수 있었습니다. 그는 이 사실을 알게 되자…….
Award-winning writer Kim Edwards's The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted family drama that explores every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you?
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's syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But 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 David Henry's fateful decision that long-ago winter night.
A rich and deeply moving page-turner, The Memory Keeper's Daughter captures the way life takes unexpected turns and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets burst into the open. It is an astonishing tale of redemptive love.




