She knows just when to hang back-and when to light the match." -Lisa Zeidner, author of Love Bomb and Layover "I was gripped from the first line of Lisa Gornick's ingenious novel to the last. She exposes her characters with a skilled therapist's blend of gentility and intensity. Lisa Gornick is a psychoanalyst as well as a novelist, and the training serves her well. A masterly and dramatic group portrait, drawn with intelligence, precision, and deep feeling." -Daniel Menaker, author of The Treatment "A fiery, tender novel about the smoldering secrets that can destroy a family. A first-rate novel, all the more surprising since it is Gornick's debut., " Tinderbox is the story of a family undergoing seismic changes brought on by a stranger who unwittingly forces her hosts to face themselves. A Private Sorcery is a wonderfully honest book, deeply felt, with characters carved from the true stuff of what we are. It's certainly not easy to make it seem so easy. Lisa Gornick is one of those voices-she manages to match a compelling storyline with a language that is simultaneously intimate, intelligent, and crafted. Without a doubt, Tinderbox is corporeal, and a beating product of Gornick's experiences., Every now and then a new voice comes along that makes sense of our deep need for stories and their tellers. Lisa Gornick's novel, Tinderbox, explores the entanglement of human lives and the stunning result when lightness and darkness meet. It's a searingly perceptive, deeply honest novel about families and secrets, and power, and love. ![]() Tinderbox spins a suspenseful mystery of hidden traumas. In the rich tradition of Lionel Shriver, Jane Hamilton, and Anne Tyler, the psychoanalyst and novelist Lisa Gornick tells us a story about the tragedy of good intentions. As events spiral out of Myra's control, she learns that even a family as close-knit as her own can have plenty to hide. Their relationship slowly and inexorably becomes too close, too dependent, and, ultimately, terrifyingly destructive. Then, one afternoon, she settles into Myra's patient chair and begins to expose the secrets of her past. She spits in her hands to ward off evil spirits. She racks the household with screams from a night terror. ![]() 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. When you invite a stranger into your home, you never know who's really coming in.
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