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Daughter's Keeper (Hardcover)

by Ayelet Gilbert Waldman (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Sourcebooks (Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 140220096X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1402200960
  • Product Dimensions: 24 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,016,113 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars An astute look at the US criminal justice system, 9 Mar 2004
By M. J Leonard "MikeonAlpha" (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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I was quite surprised at some of the negative reviews of Daughter’s Keeper. I thought it was quite an intelligent, well-written and thought provoking story. Waldman writes with a genuine passion and intensity that resonates throughout the work, and her attitudes towards the criminal justice system are weaved quite effortlessly into the narrative. Even though the story does have a tendency to drift into clichéd melodrama, Waldman still does a terrific job at presenting the human costs of the federal incarceration laws. Daughter’s Keeper works on a number of different levels: A portrait of a family in crisis; a mother-daughter love story; an indictment of the criminal justice system, and as an intuitive study of motherhood and what it means to be a mother.

When the independently minded and headstrong Olivia is arrested under suspicion of dealing in met amphetamines with her Mexican boyfriend Jorge, she is catapulted into a nightmarish scenario – where both Olivia and her self-sufficient mother Elaine, are forced to confront head-on the government’s war on drugs. As Olivia faces criminal prosecution, Elaine must come to terms with her own hidden regrets to grasp the opportunity for a second chance with her daughter.

Waldman manages to weave astute characterization, with a perceptive use of drama to produce a story that shows not only the inequities of a judicial system that sees only in black and white, but also those strong bonds between mother and daughter. She has a nice easy, relaxed style that pleasantly balances natural conversation, and the interior description of the character’s inner lives, with a solid dramatic tension. Daughter’s Keeper will teach you a lot about mandatory minimum sentences and also make you question whether the federal government is really winning the war on drugs.

Michael

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