Ana Turns

Lisa Gornick

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English

Turner Publishing Company
14 February 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Gay & Lesbian studies

Featured in Buzz Books 2023 Great Reads Fall/Winter

A kaleidoscopic story, unspooling over the twenty-four hours of a very contemporary woman's sixtieth birthday.

Nine years have passed since Ana Koehl had sex with her pot-addicted anesthesiologist husband, seven since she began an affair with a gonzo journalist. She's gratified by her work as a book doula, but burdened by her belief that she need always be on call. Her elderly mother's birthday greeting is an inflation-adjusted calculation of the cost of raising Ana in a mice-infested house, her brother has hijacked the will of their recently deceased starchitect father, her adult child is changing rapidly before her eyes, and her best friend advocates for 'the truth in lies'. Gazing out at the dark moat of Central Park from behind her desk, Ana sees that she can no longer postpone making peace with her past or confronting her present.

Narrated by Ana and the key figures in her life

her husband, her brother, her lover's wife, to name a few

Ana Turns spirals through issues from capital punishment to the dynamiting of the Bamiyan Buddhas, culminating in a watershed dinner party, with Ana's family members' true colors on full display. By day's end, the bounds of her own collaboration and forgiveness illuminated, Ana turns towards a vision of what she wants next in this blink of a life.

'A wealth of keen insight and just the right touch of delightful humour.'

Sigrid Nunez, author ofThe Friend

By: Lisa Gornick
Imprint: Turner Publishing Company
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
ISBN: 9781684421398
ISBN 10: 168442139X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 14 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 recentlyThe Peacock FeastandLouisa Meets Bear,both published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Her essays have appeared widely, including in theNew York Times,theParis Review, Real Simple,and theWall 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.