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Event
Diane Lawson in conversation with Abraham Verghese
Presented by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler's Books
"A Tightly Raveled Mind"
Monday, October 19, 2015
7:30pm
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
"Diane Lawson's amazing insight into the mysteries and witchcraft of psychoanalysis . . . combined with her extraordinary writing skills makes this a one-of-a-kind novel that I found impossible to put down."Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone.
Sigmund Freud would have liked Dr. Nora Goodman, a sexy forty-something psychoanalyst with her handful of neurotic patients who can't seem to allow themselves happiness, love, or success. She's not exactly a steady customer herself, born to a ranting bipolar Talmudic scholar and a mother with a heart as cold as a slaughterhouse on the Kansas prairie in January. But now she has two kids and an overbearing psychiatrist husband. She hates him. She hates his insular social world. Nora wants a new life sans husband, but what she gets is something terribly different. It starts one Monday morning when her eight o'clock patient blows himself to smithereens. The following week, another patient dies. The police see the first as an accident, the second a straightforward suicide. Nora thinks her practice is being targeted by a killer. She hires private investigator Mike Ruiz, a tightly wound ex-cop who couldn't care less for Sigmund. "Oh, Freud," Mike says. "Isn't he dead??" Freud is always watching while the unlikely pair struggle to an unexpected end.
Dr. Diane Lawson Martinez is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in full-time private practice in San Antonio, Texas, specializing in the treatment of individuals and couples. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston. She has a MFA in Creative Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and writes works of fiction and creative non-fiction, in addition to her professional papers.
Abraham Verghese is an internationally popular author and a prominent voice in medicine with a uniquely humanistic view of the future of healthcare. His memoirs and novels on medical themes have sold millions of copies, been translated into many languages and topped bestseller lists, while his New York Times articles, making the case for greater physician focus on the patient in an era of technology advances in medicine, have made waves in the medical community.
The event is free - please register today.
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LocationKepler's Books (View)
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
United States
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