Xe Sands narrates with a quiet tension that suits the slow creep of this sci-fi domestic thriller. Evelyn is an accomplished scientist in the field of cloning human adults, although her victories in advancing the controversial work feel bittersweet. Her husband, Nathan, is having an affair, but the sweet-voiced Martine isn’t just another woman—Nathan has used Evelyn’s own research techniques to create an obedient, domestic, and illegal clone of Evelyn herself. Evelyn wants nothing to do with them, and in short order Nathan is dead, and Martine is in trouble. Sands delivers all the slowly building suspense with her smooth first-person narration as the author delves into the ethics of cloning and the legacy of trauma while executing plot twists that make for a satisfying, if disturbing, story. E.E.C. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is “a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions.”--Entertainment Weekly
I'm embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had married.
It took me so long to hate him.
Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwell's award-winning research. She's patient and gentle and obedient. She's everything Evelyn swore she'd never be.
And she's having an affair with Evelyn's husband.
Now, the cheating bastard is dead, and both Caldwell wives have a mess to clean up.
Good thing Evelyn Caldwell is used to getting her hands dirty.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books
Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is “a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions.”--Entertainment Weekly
I'm embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had married.
It took me so long to hate him.
Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwell's award-winning research. She's patient and gentle and obedient. She's everything Evelyn swore she'd never be.
And she's having an affair with Evelyn's husband.
Now, the cheating bastard is dead, and both Caldwell wives have a mess to clean up.
Good thing Evelyn Caldwell is used to getting her hands dirty.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books
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BN ID: | 2940172909795 |
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Publisher: | Macmillan Audio |
Publication date: | 02/16/2021 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
Sales rank: | 1,096,378 |
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