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Book Reviews

March 21, 2018

Where does she think she is?

Ida
Alison Evans
Echo Publishing, 2017
ISBN: 9781760404383
$19.99
244 pp

There have been many novels about people with multiple personalities or split ones. This book is very different from any I’ve read – one character, one personality, multiple existences.

Alison Evans breaks new ground: as an author and in the creation of the characters who inhabit this gripping book. Alison identifies as genderqueer – she doesn’t identify as male or female and eschews the female and male third person personal pronouns, using ‘they’ instead. One of the characters in Ida’s world, Daisy, reflects this. (more…)