Alice LaPlante

Join our Mystery Book Group for a book discussion beginning at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 27. All community members are welcome! This month we will be reading and discussing Turn of Mind. Book Group selections are available at Books & Co. for 15% off the list price. Unless otherwise noted, we meet on the 4th Wednesday of each month at Books & Company.

Location: Street: 1039 Summit Ave City: Oconomowoc, Province: Wisconsin Postal Code: 53066-4457 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Please join us for Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante. New members are always welcome!

Our book clubs are open to the community. You may either purchase the book (a 20% book club discount will be applied), or pay a $5.00 partcipation fee.

Location: Street: 674 Main Street Additional: Salford Square City: Harleysville, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19438-1665 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Join us for a reading group discussion of Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante!

Venue: Left Bank Books - Downtown

With unmatched patience and a pulsating intensity, LaPlante's debut novel brings readers deep into a brilliant woman's deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be both a blessing and a curse.

Location: Street: Left Bank Books - Downtown Additional: 321 N. 10th City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63101 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Join Joyce in the bookstore den to discuss Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante. In this remarkable fiction debut, Dr. Jennifer White, a retired surgeon, narrates her own descent into dementia, oscillating between periods of lucidity and long stretches of incoherence. When Amanda, her neighbor and best friend, is found murdered and circumstances point to her as a possible suspect, she fears that she might be the killer. As details surface about their sometimes contentious relationship, her grown children consider moving her to an assisted living facility. (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Alice LaPlante reads from Turn of Mind.

A stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a retired orthopedic surgeon with dementia which has already received worldwide attention. With unmatched patience and a pulsating intensity, Alice LaPlante brings us deep into a brilliant woman’s deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be both a blessing and a curse. A startling portrait of a mind clinging to bits of reality through anger, frustration, shame, and unspeakable loss, Turn of Mind is a remarkable debut that examines the deception and frailty of memory and how it defines our very existence. (LiteraryFiction)… (more)