The Peacock Feast

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By Lisa Gornick ’77

Published Oct. 12, 2018

Spanning almost 100 years, The Peacock Feast  (Sarah Crichton Books) explores the aftershocks of a single day in 1916. In this sweeping family drama, novelist Lisa Gornick ’77 brings to bear her training in her erstwhile career as a clinical psychologist to illuminate how decisions and loss echo across time and space.

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