Kim Edwards (born 1958) is an American author and educator. Her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2006), is a New York Times Bestseller.
She wrote the short story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King (1997), which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, and has won both a Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award. A graduate of Colgate University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she currently teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.
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Families have secrets they hide even from themselves...
It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy
family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night
that will haunt five lives for ever.
For though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome.
And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will
reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her
care to a nurse.
As grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make her
own way in the world as best she can.
快要看完了。这是一本写的很美的书,在阅读的过程中,我的脑海里不断的出现画面感。最令人惊异的是,往往在描写的第一句中,还未成像的,在读到接下来的第二句时,画面会突然扑面而来。比如,书里面有一处,讲诺拉身穿的裙子,第一句在讲,那是一条碎花的裙子,你会觉得,天下...
评分这是一个特别伤感的故事:有着美好生活的亨利夫妇,在一个寒夜迎来了双胞胎儿女,但丈夫发现女儿患有“唐氏综合症”,便瞒着妻子,委托护士卡罗琳把孩子送到福利院,然后骗妻子诺拉说女儿死了。“唐氏综合症”是一种因为婴儿细胞染色体异常引起的疾病,会使婴儿有轻度或中度的...
评分 评分不明白为什么小孩子有病,为了不让妻子受到伤害就放弃了她。这是个爸爸该有的责任吗? 不明白为什么妈妈想要再生个孩子,而丈夫极力反对。是因为对自己过去做过的错事心里不安,还是不想再继续一个谎言? 儿子本来快乐幸福,缺因为看到妈妈的衣服在沙滩上飞扬而一下子想堕入了...
beat my heart!
评分beat my heart!
评分读不下去了。这作者要不要描写的那么细致啊,看着真累人
评分a secret concealed for over a quarter of a century. touching and exquisite
评分早读读物。
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