Alice LaPlante: Turn of Mind
08/23/2011 7:00 pm
| TUESDAY, AUGUST 23 7pm | Alice LaPlante: Turn of Mind |  Alice LaPlante |
| Alice LaPlante presents her acclaimed debut novel, Turn of Mind, one of the biggest buzz books of the year and the current #1 Indie Next pick. Retired orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jennifer White is suffering from dementia. Her best friend, Amanda, who lived down the block, has been killed, and four fingers surgically removed from her hand. Dr. White is the prime suspect—and she herself doesn't know whether or not she did it. Told in White's own fractured voice, a picture emerges of the surprisingly intimate, complex alliance between these life-long friends—two proud, forceful women who were at times each other's most formidable adversaries. As the investigation into the murder deepens and White's relationships with her live-in caretaker and two grown children intensify, a chilling question lingers: is White's shattered memory preventing her from revealing the truth, or helping her to hide it? > Listen to Alice LaPlante discuss Turn of Mind on The Diane Rehm Show here >> | |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alice LaPlante teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and Stanford University, where she is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her fiction has been published in the Southwest Review, Epoch, and Stanford Magazine, and her nonfiction has been published in Discover, BusinessWeek, and the San Jose Mercury News, among other publications. She lives in Palo Alto, California. | |
Location:
- Street:
- 6428 S McClintock Dr.
- City:
- Tempe ,
- Province:
- Arizona
- Postal Code:
- 85283
- Country:
- United States
