TBE Reads “Ana Turns” with author Lisa Gornick

September 5, 2024, 7:15 pm - 8:45 pm

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TBE Reads welcomes Lisa Gornick, author of Ana Turns, for a discussion of her new book.

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

The discussion will be led by Ami Sands Brodoff.

RSVP to Debbie Herman.

 

Author Lisa Gornick’s stories and essays have appeared widely, including in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Real Simple, and The Wall Street Journal. Her other works include Louisa Meets Bear, Tinderbox, and A Private Sorcery. She holds a B.A. from Princeton and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Yale, and is on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. A long-time New Yorker, she lives in Manhattan with her family.