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The day Mark called, Patricia Cowan's world split in two. The phone call. It is 2015 and Patricia Cowan is very old. 'Confused today' read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. Her childhood, her years at Oxford during the Second World War - those things are solid in her memory. Then that phone call and her memory splits in two. She was Trish, a housewife and mother of four. She was Pat, a successful travel writer and mother of three. She remembers living her life as both women, so very clearly. Which memory is real - or are both just tricks of time and light?
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Memory in old age, Women, Identity (Psychology), Uncertainty, Nuclear warfare, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, alternative history, Human relations - Fiction, Women - Fiction, Aged - Fiction, Self-perception - Fiction, Memory - Fiction, Fiction, general, Imaginary histories, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, Interpersonal relations, Life change events, Memory, Motherhood, collection:otherwise_tiptree_award=winner, Femmes, Romans, nouvellesShowing 6 featured editions. View all 11 editions?
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Standard print edition originally published: New York: Tor, 2014.
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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 homes in Britain and Italy? And the moon outside her window: does it host a benign research station, or a command post bristling with nuclear missiles?
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