Galchen, Rivka.
Summary: In one of the intensely imaginative stories in Rivka Galchen's American Innovations, a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to promise to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated pains and loves of a family. By turns realistic, fantastical,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her. A simulatcrum. But Leo is not fooled, and he knows better than to trust his senses in matters of the heart. Certain that the real Rema is alive and in hiding, he embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim her. With the help of his psychiatric patient...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALGalchen, Rivka.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008