The Echo Wife

A scientist's cloning achievement enters her marriage, and the resulting conflict exposes how much control a creator expects over a created person's character. Gailey makes self-description part of the problem: professional assurance does not make the narrator's account of herself complete. Read for a compressed, disturbing struggle over personhood, dependence and the authority to decide what another woman should be. The domestic suspense carries the speculative argument, with coercion and abuse close to its centre.