A few days ago I finished reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter. I originally got this book for Christmas my senior year but I was enrolled into two literature class during the spring and I never was able to read it until now. It was a very good but also sorrowful. It begins when Dr. David Henry delivers his twin children and notices an abnormality in his daughter. She has Down syndrome and he believes it would be best for all parties involved if she were to go to an institution. He asks his nurse Caroline to take her there except she doesn't have the heart to leave the little girl in that place. Instead she takes her home, moves to a different city, and raises her as her own. The novel is about how this secret haunts the lives of David Henry and his family. There is not a happy ending to this book but it is rather similar to life. A few doors close, some relationships end while others prosper, it is never the end though. Life goes on, a new door always opens up.
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