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Ana Turns by Lisa Gornick

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Also by Lisa Gornick:

Ana Turns, November 2023
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The Peacock Feast, March 2020
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Louisa Meets Bear, July 2016
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Louisa Meets Bear, June 2015
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Ana Turns
Lisa Gornick

Keylight Books
November 2023
On Sale: November 7, 2023
ISBN: 168442139X
EAN: 9781684421398
Kindle: B0BPPXTJBJ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction

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.

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