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A kaleidoscopic story, Ana Turns unspools over the 24 hours of a woman’s 60th birthday, as she grapples with issues from addiction to marital fidelity to family betrayals—filled with “keen insight and just the right touch of delightful humor” (Sigrid Nunez), by “one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America” (NPR).
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Lisa Gornick has been hailed by NPR as “one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America . . . immensely talented and brave.” She is the author of four previous novels, most recently The Peacock Feast and Louisa Meets Bear, both published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Her essays have appeared widely, including in the New York Times, the Paris Review, Real Simple, and the Wall Street Journal. A graduate of the Yale clinical psychology program and the psychoanalytic training program at Columbia, where she is on the faculty, she was for many years a practicing psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. She lives in New York City with her family. You can learn about Lisa and her work at lisagornickauthor.com.
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A kaleidoscopic story, Ana Turns unspools over the 24 hours of a woman's 60thbirthday, as she grapples with issues from addiction to marital fidelity to family betrayals-filled with "keen insight and just the right touch of delightful humor" (Sigrid Nunez), by "one"of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America" (NPR).
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"gmail-a-text-bold">A kaleidoscopic story, Ana Turns unspools over the 24 hours of a woman’s 60th birthday, as she grapples with issues from addiction to marital fidelity to family betrayals—filled with “keen insight and just the right touch of delightful humor” (Sigrid Nunez), by “one ">of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America” (NPR).
