Memory Keeper... YOU keep it!

The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a soap opera on a stick.

I picked up, having had it recommended to me by so many people, and the deal was sealed when the one of my favorite authors, Sue Monk Kidd, had her quoted on the front cover. I paid money for this book, and I wished I had checked it out at the library first.

It has an interesting premise, a doctor who delivers his own twins, and makes a quick decision about requesting his nurse to take the baby girl with Down's Syndrome to a home for children. He does not tell his wife. Now, that that part is over with, we spend the rest of the book bemoaning about his choice and how his wife is haunted by the 'death' of the missing twin girl.

The nurse, on her own impulse (so much impulsive decision making!), flies off to another city, to raise the baby as her own child. She struggles, she finds a miracle job which does not question her lack of references (she's a runaway nurse, remember?) and pays her well enough to live with her adopted daughter. She flirts with a long running romance with a persistent truck driver who eventually tracks her down and they make a life together.

The doctor, the child's father, escapes into photography as a hobby, enjoys a bit of fame for his work, to the point it could have been a second career, then drops it, perhaps out of his long running depression over his choice, so many years ago. His silence shuts out his wife, who also escapes into love affairs and developing a successful travel business, and eventually it all dissolves into divorce. There's more... at this point, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE.

Now, I finished the book, because I am that way, BUT... seriously, this is not my style of book.