John f kennedy childrens biography walton

2014 novel by Jo Walton

My Real Children is a 2014 alternate history novel by Welsh-Canadian writer Jo Walton, published by Tor Books.

It was released on May 20, 2014.

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Plot

In 2015, Patricia is 89 years old and living in a nursing home, with two mutually-exclusive sets of memories: one of a world where John F. Kennedy was killed by a bomb in 1963, and one of a world where Kennedy chose not to run in 1964 after an escalated Cuban Missile Crisis led to the nuclear obliteration of Miami and Kyiv—and, on a more personal level, one in which she went by "Trish", married a man and had four children before she was able to escape an unhappy marriage and become involved in politics, and one in which, as "Pat", she was a successful travel writer raising three children with her lesbian partner.

Both feel completely real, but both cannot be – even though both sets of children visit her.

Patricia's two worlds

In the Kennedy assassination timeline, there is accel