But as Eva, a Peruvian immigrant, reveals more of herself, what seemed a felicitous arrangement turns ominous. Her phobia-addled son has just moved back in with his wife and child, and the new nanny, Eva, seems like a perfect addition: she cleans like a demon and irons like a dream, and she forms an immediate bond with Myra's grandson. A quick study and an excellent judge of character, she thinks she knows what she's getting when she hires a nanny-it's her job, after all, to analyze people. Tinderbox by Lisa Gornick When you invite a stranger into your home, you never know who's really coming in. With flawed and deeply human characters, and piercing insight into the lives of women,Louisa Meets Beargrapples with whether we can-or can't-choose how and whom we love. We follow them over the course of a half century, from San Francisco to New York City and from Guatemala to Venice, through pregnancies, tragedies, and revelations, until we return to Louisa and Bear. Each character is striking, each rendered with Gornick's trademark sympathy and psychological acuity. We meet a daughter who stabs her mother when she learns the truth about her father, a wife who sees herself clearly after finding a man dead on her office floor, a mother who discovers a girl in her teenage son's bed. ReadingLouisa Meets Bearis like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, as we uncover the subtle and startling connections between new characters and the star-crossed lovers. Lisa Gornick'sLouisa Meets Bearis a gripping novel in interconnected stories from an author whose work "starts off like a brush fire and then engulfs and burns with fury" (The Huffington Post). They dive headfirst into a passionate affair that will alter the course of their lives, changing how they define themselves in the years and relationships that follow. Louisa is the sexually adventurous daughter of a geneticist, Bear the volatile son of a plumber. Louisa Meets Bear by Lisa Gornick When Louisa and Bear meet at Princeton in 1975, sparks fly. ".Turning the pages is a pleasure…There is betrayal, sadness, and tragedy… but apart from all this, it's the realistic portrayal of relationships and personalities that carries the book."
Booklist, ***Starred Review*** On Tinderbox:
Utterly human and keenly humane, her heroes and heroines are our friends and enemies, our very selves for better and worse.
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" Coming full circle in a way that is both oddly surprising and yet feels organically right, Gornick's (Tinderbox, 2013) exploration of loneliness and loss, private connections and personal upheavals resonates with comforting familiarity and profound brilliance.
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" Gornick's brilliantly constructed third novel (after Tinderbox) offers a seamless series of events, spanning from 1961 to 2009, that explore the full spectrum of life in all its bizarre coincidences, tragedies, and passions… Gornick captures all the heartbreak and joy of what it is to be human. "Those who enjoy literary novels of psychological portent will relish this title."
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