- 321 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
"A brilliant gem of a novel: a page-turner" about a therapist whose family life is forever changed when a stranger comes to stay is "absolutely riveting" (Christina Baker Kline, # 1 New York Times –bestselling author of Orphan Train )
Myra is a Manhattan psychotherapist. A quick study and an excellent judge of character, she thinks she knows what she's getting when she hires a nanny. 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.
But as Eva, a Peruvian immigrant, reveals more of herself, what seemed a felicitous arrangement turns ominous. She racks the household with screams from a night terror. She spits in her hands to ward off evil spirits. Then, one afternoon, she settles into Myra's patient chair and begins to expose the secrets of her past. Their relationship slowly and inexorably becomes too close, too dependent, and, ultimately, terrifyingly destructive. 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.
Psychoanalyst and novelist Lisa Gornick spins a suspenseful mystery and a searingly perceptive novel about families and secrets, and power, and love.
"This vivid portrait of a family unravelling is perfect for book clubs." ? People
" Tinderbox will certainly be compared to Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed The Corrections. . . . Gornick creates a world of characters every bit as complex and flawed—and as real—as Franzen's subjects." ? Jewish Book World
"Gornick has translated the very real and tender chaos of family into a novel that's expertly constructed and engaging." ? Bustle
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Part One
- Part Two
- Part Three
- Part Four
- Acknowledgments
- A Note About the Author
- Also by Lisa Gornick
- Copyright