When Adam's wife, Rachida, a doctor from Morrocco`, gets a prestigious fellowship to a New York hospital, Myra doesn't think they should live in housing they could afford when she has a whole brownstone to herself. Myra, the protagonist, is a New York psychotherapist and writer and the mother of two adult children-Caro, a brilliant but floundering Harvard grad, and her brother Adam, a phobic screenwriter and the father of Myra's only grandchild, Omar. Probably, your reaction to this novel will depend on your taste for complications. 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 nannyit's her job, after all, to analyze people. When you invite a stranger into your home, you never know who's really coming in. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice.
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