My Real Children

My Real Children by Jo Walton, 320 pages

Patricia is nearing the end of her life in a nursing home.  She has a form of dementia, just like her mother did, and she recognizes that she is easily confused about many things.  However, one of the most confusing parts is that she seems to remember living to different lives, simultaneously, one as a wife to Mark, mother of four children, and one with Bee, mother to three different children.  She realizes that it sounds crazy, and doesn’t try to explain to anyone.  There was a definite point in her life when the split happened.  She can’t remember which life is real, or if somehow, both of them are.  This book was fantastic.  Alternating chapters were told from her two different lives and I loved both parts.  This is definitely for people who like realistic fantasy and science fiction.