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Daughter's Keeper | 
 enlarge | Author: Ayelet Gilbert Waldman
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Category: Book
Buy New: £13.34
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1436819
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 140220096X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781402200960
ASIN: 140220096X
Publication Date: September 2003
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An astute look at the US criminal justice system March 9, 2004
M. J Leonard (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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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