{"product_id":"mother-daughter-widow-wife-a-novel-9781982139490","title":"Mother Daughter Widow Wife: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e“[An] utterly enthralling piece of music, sharp and soulful and ferociously insightful all at once…This singular, spellbinding novel is…an exploration of identity itself.” —Leslie Jamison, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Recovering\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMake It Scream, Make It Burn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Wasserman has a unique gift for describing the turbulent intersection of love and need, hinting that the freedom we seek may only be the freedom to change.” —Liz Phair, author of \u003ci\u003eHorror Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eGirls on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho is Wendy Doe?\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSearing, propulsive, and compassionate, \u003ci\u003eMother Daughter Widow Wife \u003c\/i\u003eis an ambitious exploration of selfhood from an expert and enthralling storyteller.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":53101511147680,"sku":"9781982139490-used-good","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0463\/0115\/1392\/files\/41KCYn4ykTL.jpg?v=1765413328","url":"https:\/\/shop.mtwyouth.org\/products\/mother-daughter-widow-wife-a-novel-9781982139490","provider":"More Than Words ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}