Sign in with Facebook
Lisa Gornick’s Followers (124)
606 books
|
774 friends
2,122 books
|
1,978 friends
66,493 books
|
3,220 friends
216 books
|
1,263 friends
238 books
|
2,986 friends
107 books
|
3,406 friends
1,929 books
|
111 friends
4,245 books
|
5,781 friends
More friends…
Lisa Gornick
Goodreads Author
Website
Genre
Member Since
June 2013
Early Praise for The Peacock Feast!
“The Best New Books Coming Out Winter 2019”
–Southern Living
“Sophisticated Reads: Fiction Previews, Feb. 2019”
—Library Journal
“Delicately weaving Grace’s present with Prudence’s past, acclaimed novelist Gornick spins an appealing and enthralling family saga.”
–Carol Haggas, Booklist
“The deftness of Gornick’s talent is visible in the hints and glimpses of the past…Finely observed and ultimately rede Read more of this blog post »
–Southern Living
“Sophisticated Reads: Fiction Previews, Feb. 2019”
—Library Journal
“Delicately weaving Grace’s present with Prudence’s past, acclaimed novelist Gornick spins an appealing and enthralling family saga.”
–Carol Haggas, Booklist
“The deftness of Gornick’s talent is visible in the hints and glimpses of the past…Finely observed and ultimately rede Read more of this blog post »
|
The Peacock Feast
—
published
2019
—
7 editions
|
|
|
Louisa Meets Bear
—
published
2015
—
3 editions
|
|
|
Tinderbox
—
published
2013
—
11 editions
|
|
|
Ana Turns
|
|
|
A Private Sorcery
—
published
2002
—
5 editions
|
|
|
The Peacock Feast: A Novel
by |
|
“There was an inscription at the end in Latin. It’s translated in one of the guidebooks: What you are, we used to be. What we are, you will be. What do you think they meant?” Janey looked confused, torn, Ilana was sure, between her wish to have her mother explain and not wanting to admit her incomprehension to her sister. “It’s obvious,” Sarah said. “The bones were once people. Someday we’ll be just bones.” “I knew that.” “Liar,”
― Louisa Meets Bear
― Louisa Meets Bear
“I’ve lost not only my vanity but my feeling of mind-body identity, so that I no longer believe, as you did about me, that elegance of form is elegance of being. I do my best to keep the numbers on the scale where I want them and my skin and hair well tended, but my body is now essentially the vehicle for carting around what I think of as my self. Not”
― Louisa Meets Bear
― Louisa Meets Bear
“Andrew would undoubtedly die believing he never needed anyone. I’d be a dot on the time line of human traps he escaped.”
― Louisa Meets Bear
― Louisa Meets Bear
Topics Mentioning This Author
| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retro Chapter Chi...: Winter 2018: The "Waiting" Challenge | 72 | 29 | Mar 21, 2019 09:54AM | |
| All Challenges Al...: Longmire Spell Challenge | 127 | 86 | Nov 05, 2023 05:49AM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: 2024-2025 Dare to DNF! | 590 | 99 | Aug 21, 2025 05:03PM | |
| The Life of a Boo...: A to Z Authors | 3981 | 1142 | Dec 25, 2025 07:35AM |
Book Keeping
— 132 members
— last activity Mar 18, 2021 12:44PM
Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Sarah Crichton Books / FSG present Book Keeping, a readers' community. Join us for discussions, author chats, and giveaw ...more
AMERICAN HISTORICAL NOVELS
— 1175 members
— last activity Feb 20, 2026 03:21PM
American Historical Novels is hosted weekly by your favorite authors. This is NOT a reading group, but a place to discover great, new fiction. There w ...more
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 321382 members
— last activity 4 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
