August: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

For August we will be reading "The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards.

Excerpt from the author's website: 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 he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the baby as her own. Compusively readable and deeply moving.