Description: When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife Rema disappears, she leaves behind a single, confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks and behaves exactly like her. Certain that the original Rema is alive and hiding, Leo embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim his lost love.
Brief description:
Rivka Galchen is a recipient of a William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and a Berlin Prize, among other distinctions. She writes regularly for the New Yorker, which selected her for its list of 20 under 40 American fiction writers in 2010.
Review Quotes:
"[An] enthralling debut...heartbreaking and maddening...Don't be surprised if this gives you a Crying of Lot 49 nostalgia hit."
-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"