The Doctor’s Daughter

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Author: Hilma Wolitzer

In her first work of fiction in more than a decade, award-winning novelist Hilma Wolitzer brilliantly renders the intimate details of ordinary life and exposes a host of hidden truths. The Doctor’s Daughter is a haunting portrait of a woman coming to terms with her family history and the fallibility of memory.,,One morning, Alice Brill awakes with a sudden awareness that som….Read More

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