Her next publication, a collection of linked short stories, entitled Louisa Meets Bear, will hit bookstores soon. 'Tinderbox is a brilliant gem of a novel: a page-turner that reminds us that, while we are never without the weight of our past, we also choose how we carry it. and the psychoanalytic training program at Columbia. in clinical psychology from Yale, and is a graduate of the writing program at N.Y.U. Her work has been published in Agni, Confrontation, The Massachusetts Review, Slice, and other journals. Her short stories and essays have earned her numerous awards, including the Best American Short Stories Distinguished Story of the year. Her debut novel, A Private Sorcery, also features a psychiatrist as the main character and explores a family in turmoil. It is not surprising that Tinderbox has been compared to Jonathan Franzen’s acclaimed The Corrections. It’s a searingly perceptive, deeply honest novel about families and secrets, and power, and love. As events spiral out of Myras control, she learns that even a family as close-knit as her own can have plenty to hide. Tinderbox spins a suspenseful mystery of hidden traumas. The characters are as real as they are flawed. In the rich tradition of Lionel Shriver, Jane Hamilton, and Anne Tyler, the psychoanalyst and novelist Lisa Gornick tells us a story about the tragedy of good intentions. A quick study and an excellent judge of character, she thinks she knows what shes getting when she hires a nanny-its her job, after all, to analyze. FSG/Sarah Crichton, 26 (320p) ISBN 978-6-4 This well-crafted novel from Gornick (A Private Sorcery) tells the story of a family knocked off-balance with. While Gornick is a compelling storyteller, her true gift is the ability to delve into the minds of her characters to explore the impact of divorce, sexual abuse, isolation, and emotional turmoil on the human psyche. When you invite a stranger into your home, you never know whos really coming in. In the end, Gornick’s novel highlights that while family dysfunction can truly be a tinderbox, the resulting explosion can often burn away the scars left by old wounds and create a clean slate. While the change makes life uncomfortable for everyone, it is the addition of a Peruvian housekeeper named Eva that triggers the family’s near demise.Īfter discovering Eva is carrying her own emotional baggage, Myra tries to help but almost loses her own way. Tinderbox:.
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The gripping and often disturbing novel explores the inner-workings of a New York family dealing with more than one skeleton in the closet.
Lisa Gornick’s skills as an author and a psychoanalyst come together in her latest novel, Tinderbox.
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