Review When I first started reading 4 Janes by Marian Yee, I didn't quite know what to expect. I had read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë while studying English in college. That story, plus Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, sticks with me to this day, nearly 20 years later. So the premise of this… Continue reading 4 Janes by Marian Yee
Eddie Asher is a biracial, adopted young man and the newest patient at Hudson Valley Psychiatric Hospital. He’s struggled with his condition for years – he has dissociative identity disorder. And his other personality, Pär, has taken upon himself to protect Eddie by hiding memories from his childhood and beyond. But a recent incident has Eddie believing that he killed his brother’s fiancé, Lucy. And thanks to Pär, the only way of learning the truth is seeking the help of Dr. Richard Montgomery. But the longer he spends at the facility under treatment, he finds more pieces of the truth. Mirror Me by Lisa Williamson Rosenberg is a suspense novel in which Eddie must make sense of his memories, unknowingly uncovering the truth about his life and identity.
