TINDERBOX BY LISA GORNICK TV

The Peacock Feast is marvelously rich in character, event and locale. “ wonderfully complex, many-stranded novel. It's a book that beckons readers to get lost in its tapestry.' Lloyd Sederer, New York Journal of Books Gornick has given her readers a tale suffused with pathos and moral imperative, which tugs kindly and powerfully at our hearts.” “A great novel, which surely is, transports us through time, place and into the souls of its characters. ' intricate, emotionally complex and glorious chronicle. but on top of that I got historical and psychological mystery, art history, and several different lush settings. Lisa Gornick has written an engrossing and impressive book.' ' The Peacock Feast is one of those rare books that feels both grand and intimate, bringing the reader deeply into a very vivid past. “The Best New Books for Your Beach Bag in Early 2019” – Acqualina

TINDERBOX BY LISA GORNICK TV

“29 of 2019’s Most Amazing Books, TV Shows and Movies to Make Note of Now”- Next Tribe “Forthcoming Historical Novels for 2019'- Historical Novel Society “Notable New Releases, February 2019”- Publishers Lunch “Ten Books to Read this February 2019”- BBC-Culture “The Best New Books Coming Out Winter 2019”- Southern Living With psychological acuity and aching eloquence, Lisa Gornick has written a sweeping family drama, an exploration of the meaning of art and the art of dying, and an illuminating portrait of how our decisions reverberate across time and space. Spanning the twentieth century and three continents, The Peacock Feast ricochets from Manhattan to San Francisco, from the decadent mansions of the Tiffany family to the death row of a Texas prison, and from the London consultation room of Anna Freud to a Mendocino commune. The mementos Grace carries from her grandfather’s house stir Prudence’s long-repressed memories and bring her to a new understanding of the choices she made in work and love, and what she faces now in her final days. Nearly a century later, Prudence receives an unexpected visit at her New York apartment from Grace, a hospice nurse and the granddaughter of Randall, who Prudence never saw again after he left at age fourteen for California. The explosion shakes both the apple crate where Prudence, the daughter of Tiffany’s prized gardener, is sleeping and the rocks where Randall, her seven-year-old brother, is playing. Tiffany, the eccentric glass genius, dynamites the breakwater at Laurelton Hall-his fantastical Oyster Bay mansion, with columns capped by brilliant ceramic blossoms and a smokestack hidden in a blue-banded minaret-so as to foil the town from reclaiming the beach for public use. The Peacock Feast opens on a June day in 1916 when Louis C. From “one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America.immensely talented and brave” (Michael Schaub, NPR), a historical saga about love, class, and the past we never escape.

Tinderbox by lisa gornick