The Memory keeper's Daughter

This is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read in my lifetime and that is really saying something because I have read ALOT of them.
The MemoryKeeper's Daughter is by Kim Edwards who obviously knows how to make a character so real and perfect.
The whole book is based on a secret...even though many of the main characters don't know it, the secret has changed their lives so much. The story is about David, an ambitious doctor, very much in love with his beautiful wife Norah, who, due to circumstances has to deliver his wife's babies on night because the midwife couldn't come. When the night is over...David has a handsome, healthy, wonderful son named Paul, and a sickly daughter suffering with Down-Syndrome named Phoebe. Here, another secret is disclosed, that David grew up with a sister suffering from Down-Syndrome who died at a evry early age because of the disease. This affected David, and he saw how how it affected his mother. Not wanting the same bitter pain for Norah and Paul, he asked the nurse to take Pheobe away to an institution, and tells his wife that their daughter died at childbirth. But instead of doing that, the nurse, Catherine Gill, raised Phoebe in another city as her own daughter.
This secret weighs down on the lives of the people who do know it and the people who don't. Soon everything changes.
Anybody who really loves books should read this one. The characters are so complex and real that it's hard to blame or really love any of them. They are all so human.
The best thing about the book is its utter complexity and how Kim Edwards weaves her tale.
But the thing is that this book didn't make me cry...but it gave me this really sad sad feeling. I don't know why.....it was just so wonderfully terrible that somebody could put a reality like that on a page.
Usually my feelings aren't so complex which means there is something special about that book which makes me proud to own it.
Read it.
Really.