{"product_id":"mother-daughter-widow-wife-paperback","title":"Mother Daughter Widow Wife - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobin Wasserman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Finalist for the 2021 Pen\/Faulkner Award for Fiction​*\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eGirls on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWendy 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo 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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) and a journey of discovery, reckoning, and reclamation. \"A timely examination of memory, womanhood and power,\" (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003ci\u003eMother Daughter Widow Wife \u003c\/i\u003ewill leave you \"utterly riveted\" (\u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobin Wasserman is the author of \u003ci\u003eMother Daughter Widow Wife, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGirls on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, an NPR and \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 13, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e PEN\/Faulkner Award (2021)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768311251232,"sku":"9781982139506","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a5fe59aec60f0bb31dcc287de484bc70.webp?v=1780326796","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mother-daughter-widow-wife-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}