Mother daughter widow wife : a novel /

Mother daughter widow wife : a novel /

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Author / Creator:	Wasserman, Robin, author.
Edition:	First Scribner hardcover edition.
Imprint:	New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2020. ©2020
Description:	326 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Amnesia -- Fiction. Physician and patient -- Fiction. Psychological abuse -- Fiction. Abused women -- Fiction. Psychological abuse. Physician and patient. Abused women. Amnesia. Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. Fiction. Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12596406

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ISBN:	9781982139490 1982139498
Summary:	"'Wendy Doe' was found on a bus to Philadelphia with no money, no ID, and no memory of who she is, where she was going, or what she might have done. She is diagnosed with dissociative fugue, a temporary amnesia that could lift at any moment-- or never at all. Dr. Benjamin Strauss invites her to submit herself for experimental observation at his Meadowlark Institute for Memory Research. To Strauss's ambitious student, Lizzie Epstein, Wendy is an object of fascination, and an invitation to wonder: once a woman is untethered from all past and present obligations of womanhood, who is she allowed to become?"--Provided by publisher.

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Summary:	"[An] utterly enthralling piece of music, sharp and soulful and ferociously insightful all at once...This singular, spellbinding novel is...an exploration of identity itself." --Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering and Make It Scream, Make It Burn <br> <br> "Wasserman has a unique gift for describing the turbulent intersection of love and need, hinting that the freedom we seek may only be the freedom to change." --Liz Phair, author of Horror Stories <br> <br> From the author of Girls on Fire comes a psychologically riveting novel centered around a woman with no memory, the scientists invested in studying her, and the daughter who longs to understand. <br> <br> Finalist for the 2021 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction <br> <br> Who is Wendy Doe? The woman, found on a Peter Pan Bus to Philadelphia, has no money, no ID, and no memory of who she is, where she was going, or what she might have done. She's assigned a name and diagnosis by the state: Dissociative fugue, a temporary amnesia that could lift at any moment--or never at all. When Dr. Benjamin Strauss invites her to submit herself for experimental observation at his Meadowlark Institute for Memory Research, she feels like she has no other choice.<br> <br> 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?<br> <br> 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 the mystery of Wendy's identity--as well as Wendy's own struggle to construct a new self--Wasserman has crafted a jaw-dropping, multi-voiced journey of discovery, reckoning, and reclamation.<br> <br> Searing, propulsive, and compassionate, Mother Daughter Widow Wife is an ambitious exploration of selfhood from an expert and enthralling storyteller.
Physical Description:	326 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:	9781982139490 1982139498