the book i read recently

i bought a new book recently, memory keeper's daughter, but i don't like it much, a doctor who knows that his daughter has down's syndrome, gives her away and tell his wife that the child dies.
but the secrete causes the ruin of his marriage.
i don't know but why a person cannot recover from something? bad things happen to people, that is true, but all survive and can live a happy life if one wanted, it don't need to hold on to the past like that ,
i think i am a sensitive person, who can feel and keep my emotions longer than most people, but i don't think even i will understand this sort of thing,
how long a person should be suffer for a tragic episode, 20 yr, 30 yr, all his life, what a bore.