My Real Children

Hardcover, 320 pages

English language

Published May 3, 2014 by Tor.

ISBN:
9780765332653
OCLC Number:
855909907

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It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know—what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four children. And she remembers not marrying Mark and raising three children with Bee instead. She remembers the bomb that killed President Kennedy in 1963, and she remembers Kennedy in 1964, declining to run again after the nuclear exchange that took out Miami and Kiev.

Her childhood, her years at Oxford during the Second World War, those were solid things. But after that, did she marry Mark or not? Did her friends all call her Trish, or Pat? Had she been a housewife who escaped a terrible marriage after her children were grown, or a successful travel writer with …

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Subjects

  • Memory in old age
  • Women
  • Identity (Psychology)
  • Uncertainty
  • Nuclear warfare
  • Fiction