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Book Review of The Memory Keeper's Daughter

The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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A physician delivers his twins during a snowstorm when they are unable to get to a hospital. He makes it to his clinic, where his son is born first, without any problems. However, he delivers a twin daughter who has Down's syndome, and tells his wife the baby was stillborn. He has his office nurse take the baby girl to an institution. Instead, she keeps the baby and moves away, without telling the doctor what she has done. The story follows the lives of both the nurse and the doctor, as well as the children as they grow up. I loved this book!