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Kim Edwards
Good news in the NYTimes for one of Lexington’s most neglected authors:
A novel by an unknown author who never cracked a hardcover best-seller list, appeared on a morning television show or cut a lucrative movie deal appears on its way to becoming a paperback hit of the summer.
“The Memory Keeper’s Daughter,” a debut novel by Kim Edwards, is about a doctor who delivers his wife’s twins in 1964 and sends away their Down-syndrome-afflicted daughter at birth. Over the next 25 years, the family suffers the consequences of the doctor’s secret, while his daughter is reared far away by the nurse who attended the birth.
The book sold about 30,000 copies in hardcover when it was published last year by Viking. But since it came out in paperback in late May, it has been climbing best-seller lists and enjoying rapid sales at places like K-Mart, Barnes & Noble and independent bookstores across the country, inspiring comparisons to previous paperback sensations like “The Kite Runner,” “The Secret Life of Bees ” and “Bel Canto.”
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Last Sunday it entered the New York Times paperback fiction best-seller list at No. 11, and when the July 23 list is published, it will rise to No. 5. Yesterday it rose to No. 1 on the Barnes & Noble trade paperback best-seller list.
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