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From the author of Girls on Fire 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.Who is Wendy Doe? 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. Shes assiFrom the author of Girls on Fire 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.Who is Wendy Doe? 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. Shes 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. To Dr. Strauss Wendy is a female body subject to his investigation and control. To Strausss ambitious student Lizzie Epstein shes an object of fascination a mirror of Lizzies 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 Alices world apart. Through their attempts to untangle the mystery of Wendys identity—as well as Wendys own struggle to construct a new self—Wasserman has crafted a jaw-dropping multi-voiced journey of discovery reckoning and reclamation. Searing propulsive and compassionate Mother Daughter Widow Wife is an ambitious exploration of selfhood from an expert and enthralling storyteller.(less)