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    Mother Daughter Widow Wife: A Novel
    Mother Daughter Widow Wife: A Novel
    Mother Daughter Widow Wife: A Novel
    Audiobook11 hours

    Mother Daughter Widow Wife: A Novel

    Written by Robin Wasserman

    Narrated by Jayme Mattler, Jenni Barber and Emily Tremaine

    3.5/5

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    *Finalist for the 2021 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction​*

    From the author of Girls on Fire comes a “sharp and soulful and ferociously insightful” (Leslie Jamison) novel centered around a woman with no memory, 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).

    Editor's Note

    Stylish and gripping…

    A stylish new psychological thriller from the author of “Girls on Fire.” After a woman is found on a bus with no memory and no ID, she submits herself for scientific study led by a controlling doctor. As the team tries to solve the mystery of her identity, she fights to create a new one, and the daughter she left behind struggles to understand why her mother disappeared. A gripping tale of memory and identity, truth and power.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJul 7, 2020
    ISBN9781797106540
    Author

    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.

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    • 4/5
      If you're in the mood for consistent, navel gazing ennui than look no further. As it happened, I was in that mood so I enjoyed the book. I wasn't thrilled about the characters (women) bring defined in terms of the men in their life even as they supposedly railed against just that. The narrator was moody and lulling and fit the story well. I may have hated this book in a more critical frame of mind but if you're looking for emo, this is it.

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    • 2/5
      I was only able to make it about 45 minutes in to this book, and that was a struggle. I kept telling myself to just wait and it will get better, but it didn't. The sociopolitical undertones were just too cartoonish. It's not a matter of agreeing or disagreeing with what the author is trying to say. Rather, the author just didn't develop the characters enough to let them make the point. The characters were predictable, one note, and - therefore - boring

      Maybe it gets better later on. I decided life is too short and there are too many other, much better books out there. I'm passing on this one.
    • 1/5
      No real point to the story. Too wordy. Alice’s story especially made no sense.
    • 4/5
      The Author was clearly sending a message to the world. It was abundantly clear to me. My concern is that those who need the message might be like a few of the characters in the book, in serious denial.

      It’s a long book but very much worth the read. Good book for a book club.