Mother Daughter Widow Wife, Robin Wasserman
Mother Daughter Widow Wife, Robin Wasserman
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Mother Daughter Widow Wife

Author: Robin Wasserman

Narrator: Jayme Mattler, Jenni Barber, Emily Tremaine

Unabridged: 11 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2020


Synopsis

*Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction*

From the author of Girls on Fire comes an “artful meditation on memory and identity” (The New York Times Book Review) centered around a woman with amnesia, the scientists studying her, and the daughter who longs to understand.

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 an “artful meditation on memory and identity” (The New York Times Book Review) and a journey of discovery, reckoning, and reclamation. “A timely examination of memory, womanhood and power,” (Time) Mother Daughter Widow Wife will leave you “utterly riveted” (BuzzFeed).

About Robin Wasserman

Robin Wasserman is the author of Girls on Fire, an NPR and BuzzFeed Best Book of the Year. She is a graduate of Harvard College with a Master’s in the history of science. She lives in Los Angeles, where she writes for television.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer

Is this smoke coming out of my frying brain cells? Sure, it is! I need an urgent transplant because my brain is not functioning properly. It worked too much to understand this book and I hear the alarm bells and whooshing sound in my ears! Yes, it was too much to handle! This book terribly exhausted......more

Goodreads review by Will

“You know how you change yourself into a different person?” “How?” “This is gonna sound cheesy, but.” He blushed. “What they say in there, it’s true. You change by making one decision you wouldn’t have made before. You walk into the meeting. Even going to the meeting and leaving before it starts.......more

Goodreads review by Natasha

ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE THE ODDEST READING EXPERIENCE I’VE HAD IN A LONG TIME I mean it. I witnessed boobs being described as crusty, festooning flesh and sexual experiences ending in “he burped into my unwaxed pubes.” Yeah... ummm. Okay. But why? 🤨 Oh mind you, I clocked upwards of 40 of these bizarre......more