Turn of Mind, Paperback

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A ""New York Times"" bestseller, ""Turn of Mind"" is a literary thriller about a retired orthopedic surgeon suffering from dementia and accused of killing her best friend. With unmatched patience and a pulsating intensity, Alice La Plante's debut novel brings us deep into a brilliant woman s deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be both a blessing and a curse. When the book opens, Dr. Jennifer White s best friend, Amanda, has been killed, and four fingers surgically removed from her hand. Dr. White is the prime suspect and she herself doesn t know whether she did it. Told in White s own voice, fractured and eloquent, a picture emerges of the surprisingly intimate, complex alliance between these life-long friendstwo 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 hide it? A startling portrait of a disintegrating mind clinging to reality through anger, frustration, shame, and unspeakable loss, ""Turn of Mind"" examines the deception and frailty of memory and how it defines our very existence.""