Broken light

On a stormy, snowy night in the early 1960s, a young doctor delivers his wife himself. To their surprise, twins are born. Unfortunately, one of the children turns out to have Down syndrome. Because his wife is too sedated by the anesthesia to notice what is wrong, the doctor tells her that the girl has died. He gives the baby to a nurse, who takes her home instead of to an institution. The nurse raises the child as if it were her own.

Then a story unfolds around these characters: the doctor and his wife, the nurse who gets a partner and the children who grow up apart, but by a twist of fate will eventually meet each other. A story full of unexpected twists around the burden of secrets, loss and desire.

Kim Edwards made her debut with the publication of a widely acclaimed collection of short stories for which she received both the Whiting Writer's Award and the Nelson Algren Award. Edwards teaches writing at the University of Kentucky