Female author and/or book title
I'm trying to remember the name of a female author who wrote a book that I looked up ages ago. It looked interesting, but apparently not interesting enough for me to recall much about it!
It was a recent book, maybe the last few years? The author was definitely female, and I'm fairly certain her first name or last name or both began with a G. I want to say the book title was three words and had a word like elliptical, optical, orbit, orbital, ellipses, or similar as the third word. I think it was her debut novel. I think the plot concerned a woman who suddenly could not recognize her husband or her father, or whose husband or father suddenly disappeared. The author might have written short stories for The New Yorker, but I read a list of contributors and no names jumped out at me.
That's all I can remember, and those details are pretty sketchy; I might be completely wrong about a lot of them! Ring any bells?
****EDIT: I found it! The author is Rivka Galchen, and the book is called Atmospheric Disturbances. It was indeed her first novel, she has contributed to The New Yorker, and this is the plot (from an Amazon review):
"Galchen's main character is a psychiatrist who one day looks at his wife and convinces himself that she is an impostor. Her 'disappearance' inexplicably coincides with the disappearance of one of his patients. While 'searching' for his 'real wife,' he becomes an impostor himself: to his patients, his mother-in-law, and any number of individuals linked to a covert meteorological society that purports to control the weather."
So... I was vaguely close, at least!
It was a recent book, maybe the last few years? The author was definitely female, and I'm fairly certain her first name or last name or both began with a G. I want to say the book title was three words and had a word like elliptical, optical, orbit, orbital, ellipses, or similar as the third word. I think it was her debut novel. I think the plot concerned a woman who suddenly could not recognize her husband or her father, or whose husband or father suddenly disappeared. The author might have written short stories for The New Yorker, but I read a list of contributors and no names jumped out at me.
That's all I can remember, and those details are pretty sketchy; I might be completely wrong about a lot of them! Ring any bells?
****EDIT: I found it! The author is Rivka Galchen, and the book is called Atmospheric Disturbances. It was indeed her first novel, she has contributed to The New Yorker, and this is the plot (from an Amazon review):
"Galchen's main character is a psychiatrist who one day looks at his wife and convinces himself that she is an impostor. Her 'disappearance' inexplicably coincides with the disappearance of one of his patients. While 'searching' for his 'real wife,' he becomes an impostor himself: to his patients, his mother-in-law, and any number of individuals linked to a covert meteorological society that purports to control the weather."
So... I was vaguely close, at least!