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Mother daughter widow wife : a novel / Robin Wasserman.

Wasserman, Robin, (author.).

Summary:

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. 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. 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 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982139490
  • ISBN: 1982139498
  • Physical Description: 326 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, [2020]
Subject: Abuse > Fiction.
Amnesia > Fiction.
Abused women > Fiction.
Physician and patient > Fiction.
Psychological abuse > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.

Available copies

  • 6 of 6 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
North Kansas City Public Library FICTION WASSERMAN 2020 (Text) 0001002359881 Fiction Available -


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