{"product_id":"louisa-meets-bear-paperback","title":"Louisa Meets Bear - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLisa Gornick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Louisa and Bear meet at Princeton in 1975, sparks fly. Louisa is the sexually adventurous daughter of a geneticist, Bear the volatile son of a plumber. They dive headfirst into a passionate affair that will alter the course of their lives, changing how they define themselves in the years and relationships that follow. Lisa Gornick's \u003ci\u003eLouisa Meets Bear \u003c\/i\u003eis a gripping novel in interconnected stories from an author whose work \"starts off like a brush fire and then engulfs and burns with fury\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReading \u003ci\u003eLouisa Meets Bear \u003c\/i\u003eis like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, as we uncover the subtle and startling connections between new characters and the star-crossed lovers. We meet a daughter who stabs her mother when she learns the truth about her father, a wife who sees herself clearly after finding a man dead on her office floor, a mother who discovers a girl in her teenage son's bed. Each character is striking, each rendered with Gornick's trademark sympathy and psychological acuity. We follow them over the course of a half century, from San Francisco to New York City and from Guatemala to Venice, through pregnancies, tragedies, and revelations, until we return to Louisa and Bear. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith flawed and deeply human characters, and piercing insight into the lives of women, \u003ci\u003eLouisa Meets Bear \u003c\/i\u003egrapples with whether we can--or can't--choose how and whom we love.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Gornick\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eTinderbox \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Private Sorcery\u003c\/i\u003e. Her stories and essays have appeared widely, including in \u003ci\u003eAGNI\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, and have received many honors, including Distinguished Story in the \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories \u003c\/i\u003eanthology. She holds a B.A. from Princeton and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Yale, and is a graduate of the writing program at New York University as well as the psychoanalytic training program at Columbia. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.8 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 12, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42124653002887,"sku":"9781250094704","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/9ab15be0425f634efbfc028525c7e7d1.webp?v=1732571766","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/louisa-meets-bear-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}