“My Murder” (post 1) by Katie Williams: Women killed by a serial killer have been restored to life by cloning, but one of the cloned women refers to herself in the third person (suggesting multiple personality)

“You talk about yourself in the third person?

“Not myself. Her…

“She went on to explain that she, like me, had woken up in the hospital without any memory of how she got there…Also, like me, Fern had been assured that she was the same woman she’d been before, that she shouldn’t think of herself differently. But even though she was the same person she’d always been, her family wanted her to drop out of graduate school and move back to Arizona.

“But I didn’t drop out of school. Or move back to fucking Arizona,” Fern said. Not that they could have made me. They’re not my family.”

“Not your—?” I stopped at Fern’s look.

“They aren’t,” she said.

“I mean, aren’t they?”

“That’s not how I like to look at it.”

“Then who are your parents?… “The doctors? The replication commission?

“Not them.” Fern shrugged. Maybe I don’t have parents. Maybe I’m a self-made woman…” (1, pp. 38-39).

Comment: The book has not mentioned “multiple personality.” The above might reflect the novelist’s creative psychological asset that I call “multiple personality trait” to distinguish it from the mental disorder.

1. Katie Williams. My Murder. NewYork, Riverhead Books, 2023.