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The Memory Keeper's Daughter

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Paul reached out into the hot, humid air, feeling as if he were standing in one of his father’s photographs, where trees bloomed up in the pulse of a heart, where the world was suddenly not what it seemed. He caught a flake in one palm; when he closed his hand into a fist and opened it again, his flesh was smeared with black. You must be crazy,” Norah said, though even as she spoke so many jagged pieces of her life were falling into place that she knew what Caroline was saying must be true.

They’d never really see Phoebe, these men, they would never see her as more than different, slow to speak and to master new things.

These tulips are so beautiful,” he began, but he was unable to explain himself, unable to put into words why these images compelled him so. If you want to know more or withdraw your consent to all or some of the cookies, please refer to the cookie policy. It was as if he’d taken pictures all these years since to try and give another moment similar substance, equal weight.

He had wanted to spare her, to protect her from loss and pain; he had not understood that loss would follow her regardless, as persistent and life-shaping as a stream of water. When he imagined the daughter he’d given away, it was his sister’s face he saw, her pale hair, her serious smile. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter study guide contains a biography of Edwards, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. He talked like a river, like a storm, words rushing through the old house with a force and life he could not stop. On the other hand, some people make decisions based on memories which are not even real, but have been fed to them externally.The Memory Keeper’s Daughter spans a period of 25 years, as the events of the novel begin in 1964 and continue to unfold through 1989.

The story covers the memory as theme from the concept of how it can impact the future course of life to the struggle to define by purposeful forgetting.Rumor has it that Kim Edwards got the idea for the stranger-than-fiction premise at the heart of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter from a local pastor who told her a story about a man who, much later in life, discovered he’d had a twin brother with Down syndrome who’d been placed in an institution at birth. Later, when he considered this night—and he would think of it often, in the months and years to come: the turning point of his life, the moments around which everything else would always gather—what he remembered was the silence in the room and the snow falling steadily outside. Accordingly, David sends Phoebe away with nurse Caroline Gill and constructs a terrible lie, telling everyone that Phoebe died at birth.

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