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Atlantic Monthly Press
July 2011
On Sale: July 5, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 0802119778
EAN: 9780802119773
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction
A stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a
retired orthopedic surgeon with dementia, Turn of Mind has
already received worldwide attention. With unmatched
patience and a pulsating intensity, Alice LaPlante brings us
deep into a brilliant woman’s deteriorating mind, where the
impossibility of recognizing reality can be both a blessing
and a curse. As the book opens, Dr. Jennifer White’s best friend, Amanda,
who lived down the block, has been killed, and four fingers
surgically removed from her hand. Dr. White is the prime
suspect and she herself doesn’t know whether she did it.
Told in White’s own voice, fractured and eloquent, a picture
emerges of the surprisingly intimate, complex alliance
between these life-long friends—two proud, forceful women
who were at times each other’s most formidable adversaries.
As the investigation into the murder deepens and White’s
relationships with her live-in caretaker and two grown
children intensify, a chilling question lingers: is White’s
shattered memory preventing her from revealing the truth or
helping her to hide it? A startling portrait of a disintegrating mind clinging to
bits of reality through anger, frustration, shame, and
unspeakable loss, Turn of Mind is a remarkable debut that
examines the deception and frailty of memory and how it
defines our very existence.
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