Katherine Carlyle
By: Rupert Thomson
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781590517383; 9781590517390
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Cryonics; Self-realization in women; Fiction
Description: Katherine Carlye is an IVF baby. Stored as a frozen embryo for eight years, she is then implanted in her mother and given life. By the age of nineteen, Katherine has lost her mother to cancer, and feels her father to be an increasingly distant figure. Instead of going to college, she disappears, telling no one where she has gone. What begins as an attempt to punish her father for his absence gradually becomes a testing ground of his love for her, a coming-to-terms with the death of her mother, and finally the mise-en-scène for a courageous leap to true empowerment.