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Lisa Gornick

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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 an upcoming novel, ANA TURNS (Turner Publishing, November 7), as well as THE PEACOCK FEAST (FSG), LOUISA MEETS BEAR (FSG), TINDERBOX (FSG), and A PRIVATE SORCERY (Algonquin). Her stories and essays have appeared widely, including in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Paris Review, Real Simple, and Slate. 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 mo ...more

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 »
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Published on November 15, 2018 14:27
Average rating: 3.59 · 2,135 ratings · 374 reviews · 6 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Peacock Feast

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Louisa Meets Bear

3.65 avg rating — 665 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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Tinderbox

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Ana Turns

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A Private Sorcery

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“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,”
Lisa Gornick, 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”
Lisa Gornick, 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.”
Lisa Gornick, Louisa Meets Bear

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