Seven years ago, after an accident, Rowen Murphy awoke in the ICU, no longer able to recognize faces. The doctors said it might improve, in time. When she returned home, she hoped familiarity and routine would reorganize the scrambled and smudged faces. It didn’t. Now, years later, she’s built a beautiful, strange world of memories and associations that allow her to recognize not only her friends and family, but her own reflection. Her relationships might not be what they once were, but she’s found a way to live what she considers to be a beautiful life. But as her memory constructs become more elaborate, and the rules the people in her life must follow are more complex, they grow more concerned and increasingly impatient. The question becomes: will they allow her to continue this way forever or force her back into the “real” world? The Mansion of Many Apartments explores the nature of identity, memory, and where autonomy and community blur.