Book Review- The memory keepers daughter

The memory keepers daughter. A pensive novel. Slow, expressive, deep insight into the feelings of every character. The varied characters, so connected with each other and yet, the perception of each so different, miles apart from the other and when a reader looks at the whole picture, who is aware of the different perceptions of every intertwined character, it makes you wonder how it can all be so incomprehensible, when it can be so simple. But life really is like this, maybe. The way one looks and perceives is so different from the way someone else, any one else, does. It's as different as the colours of rainbow, yet pieced together to give the whole beautiful and wonderful picture. Somehow, despite the differences and the misunderstanding and the failure to convey oneself to others, together shows the way things actually are, the way it probably should in fact be, and are, and although we may not have the eyes of the rainbow admirer, this myriad picture is also beautiful, breathtaking in its uniqueness, glowing with its own candour. as much as it can.

Well, I went on a tangent, started playing with vocabulary and all. But well, the novel kinda grows on you as one progresses through it. I almost felt sympathetic towards David, the father who let go of his daughter with an intention of keeping her wife and son away from the pain and suffering which he went through, never knowing that this very action of his would be responsible for the pain and suffering of his family. I feel hurt by his wife, norah's inability to understand her husband, to seek solace in other things and persons, yet knowing that what she did was something anyone in her shoes would do. I feel pain for Paul's, the son,  pain and confusion and, for lack of better word, inferiority complex in the eyes of his father. And about Caroline, I think she was just a medium for Phoebe to grow and develop, to mirror what phoebe may have thought, had she been able to feel on the level everyone around her could.

I think I have gone too far. But well, it was, at the end, a good read. 

"the power of the truth to shatter and heal"