The memory keeper's daughter - Kim Edwards

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 reasons he will soon regret, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. So begins this richly textured tale, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, which unfolds the lives of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love.