{"product_id":"ana-turns-9781684421404","title":"Ana Turns","description":"\u003cb\u003eFeatured in Buzz Books 2023 Great Reads Fall\/Winter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A wealth of keen insight and just the right touch of delightful humor.\" --Sigrid Nunez, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Friend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA kaleidoscopic story, unspooling over the twenty-four hours of a very contemporary woman's sixtieth birthday.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNine 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 \u003ci\u003estarchitect \u003c\/i\u003efather, 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNarrated by Ana and the key figures in her life--her husband, her brother, her lover's wife, to name a few--\u003ci\u003eAna Turns\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLisa 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 recently \u003ci\u003eThe Peacock Feast \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLouisa Meets Bear, \u003c\/i\u003e both published by Farrar, Straus \u0026amp; Giroux. Her essays have appeared widely, including in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eParis Review, Real Simple, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal. \u003c\/i\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Keylight Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50893845266706,"sku":"9781684421404","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1046ab3d-b21d-41ed-8dc9-c7706568d492.jpg?v=1738239938","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ana-turns-9781684421404","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}