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Tinderbox (2013)

by Lisa Gornick(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0374277869 (ISBN13: 9780374277864)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Sarah Crichton Books

review 1: "Now she thinks about wabi-sabi as she has come to understand it: the acceptance of not only the inevitability of decay but of the beauty within the process of decay. That from the moment we are born, a wall is painted, a cake baked, decay sets in, and that this decay, if accepted, if part of the object's organic conception, can be more beautiful, more satisfying than an artificial idea of perfection. An electronic gadget breaks and is done for, more expensive to repair than to replace. A stone wall smooths, rounds, nourishes green moss in its crevices. A woman's face can change from plump peach to a sculpted oval of planes and bones and wisdom lines."
review 2: What a coup Gornick's Tinderbox is! Written with the intensity and the wisdom of both of her careers... more as a writer and a psychoanalyst, Gornick lets us get to know each member of the family as intimately as we might know our own. Probably better than our own, because even Myra, the grandmother and matriarch of the family, a psychoanalyst who is writing a detailed account of her personal passions, is not aware of the explosion that is about to happen in their lives when she hires a nanny from Peru to help take care of her grandson when her son and daughter-in-law move nearby. I guess that's what my Uncle Kenny meant when he said, "If only we could raise the neighbors' children." The clash of cultures--Eva, the nanny, from a young, Jewish woman from Peru, and Rachida, Myra's daughter-in-law from Morocco and the culture within this New York intelligentsia family, including the oddball, phobic, and film-obsessed Adam, Myra's son. If you love Alice Munro, Jonathan Franzen, Ian McEwan, Tolstoy, Stegner, and Elizabeth Strout, you will get your full measure from Tinderbox. less

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