The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Author: Kim Edwards

Author details: She graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and currently teaches writing at the University of Kentucky. In an interview about writing The Memory Keeper's Daughter she references a Paris Review interview, in which Katherine Anne Porter "talks about the event of a story being like a stone thrown in water—she says it’s not the event itself that’s interesting, but rather the ripples the event creates in the lives of characters." Kim adds, "I found this to be true. Once I’d written the first chapter, I wanted to find out more about who these people were and what happened to them as a consequence of David’s decision; I couldn’t stop until I knew. "

Book details: Krystle gave me this book for Christmas. Reading it made me want to write fiction--just to be able to get in the heads of so many different characters and show all the sides of a given situation. It was beautiful.