New York: Penguin Group, 2005

In "The Memory Keeper's Daughter," Kim Edwards tells the story of lives which take surprising turns, when deceit, shame and loss affect the lives of two families. The novel then shows the beauty of restored relationships. The story begins when Dr. David Henry delivers his own set of fraternal twins - one girl and one boy - during a snowstorm. He notices his son is well,  but his daughter has Down Syndrome. He instructs the nurse who is assisting him to take the girl away to be institutionalized while telling his wife that the baby died. The nurse decides to take the girl to another city and raise it herself.

With more than three million copies in print, the novel has been on the "New York Times" Best Seller list for 47 weeks, 20 of those weeks at No. 1.  The book has sold in 25 countries and spent time on the top of best seller lists in Australia.  It is currently No. 1 in Taiwan.

Kim Edwards is a professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky. She received her bachelor's degree from Colgate University, and earned master's degrees in fiction and linguistics at the University of Iowa. She has garnered multiple accolades including a Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award.