{"product_id":"mother-daughter-widow-wife-9781982139506","title":"Mother Daughter Widow Wife","description":"\u003cb\u003e*Finalist for the 2021 Pen\/Faulkner Award for Fiction​*\u003c\/b\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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982139506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352","brand":"Robin Wasserman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40240332800181,"sku":"9781982139506","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e175302b-559b-44b5-a353-67dfc5265763.jpg?v=1623729302","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mother-daughter-widow-wife-9781982139506","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}