“Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may tur...”

“Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it...”

“There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.”

“She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.”