Her novel, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, was selected for a Barnes and Noble Discovery Award and won the Kentucky Literary Award for Fiction in 2005. She has taught in the MFA programs at Warren Wilson and Washington University, and is currently an assistant professor at The University of Kentucky. Kim Edwards received a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2002. Penguin will reissue The Secrets of a Fire King in 2007. Her story collection The Secrets of a Fire King was short-listed for the 1998 Pen/Hemingway Award. Kim has also received support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council, among others. Two of her stories have been performed at Symphony Space and broadcast on Public Radio International. They have won many honors, including a National Magazine Award for Excellence in Fiction and a Pushcart Prize, as well as inclusion in The Best American Short Stories. Her stories and essays have since appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Anteaus, Story, and The Paris Review. After completing her graduate work, she went with her husband to Asia, where they spent the next five years teaching, first on the rural east coast of Malaysia, then in a small city an hour south of Tokyo, and finally in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.ĭuring her time in Asia, Kim began to publish short fiction, and in 1990 her story “Sky Juice” won the Nelson Algren Award. The oldest of four children, she graduated from Colgate University and the University of Iowa, where she received an MFA in Fiction and an MA in Linguistics. Kim Edwards grew up in Skaneateles, New York, in the heart of the Finger Lakes region. Meanwhile, Phoebe, the lost daughter, grows from a sunny child to a vibrant young woman whose mother loves her as fiercely as if she were her own. And Paul, their son, raises himself as best he can, in a house grown cold with mourning. Norah Henry, who knows only that her daughter died at birth, remains inconsolable her grief weighs heavily on their marriage. So begins this story that unfolds over a quarter of a century - in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that long-ago winter night. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself.

But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret.

Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome.

His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins.

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