Mother Daughter Widow Wife

Name: Mother Daughter Widow Wife
Author: Robin Wasserman
ISBN: 9781982139513

Robin Wasserman

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#2958 of 8,085 books · #437 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2021).

Mother Daughter Widow Wife was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wendy Doe is a woman with no past and no future. Without any memory of who she is, she's diagnosed with dissociative fugue, a temporary amnesia that could lift at any moment—or never at all—and invited by Dr. Benjamin Strauss to submit herself for experimental observation at his Meadowlark Institute for Memory Research. With few better options, Wendy feels she has no choice. To Dr. Strauss, Wendy is a female body, subject to his investigation and control. To Strauss's ambitious student, Lizzie Epstein, she's an object of fascination, a mirror of Lizzie's own desires, and an invitation to wonder: once a woman is untethered from all past and present obligations of womanhood, who is she allowed to become? To Alice, the daughter she left behind, Wendy Doe is an absence so present it threatens to tear Alice's world apart. Through their attempts to untangle Wendy's identity—as well as her struggle to construct a new self—Wasserman has crafted a journey of discovery, reckoning, and reclamation.

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