My Real Children

The more of Jo Walton I read, the more I think she is one of the best writers in genre fiction today. "My Real Children" is about an elderly woman with Alzheimer's disease. She forgets a lot of things especially the recent past and she is often confused, but remembers most parts of her life. The problem is she remembers two distinct pasts and can't tell which one is real. Her children from both her pasts come to visit her regularly in two different hospitals which keeps her wondering which life is her real life and which children are her real children. It makes for a wonderful novel of alternate history, both personal and global.

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