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The Invention of Ana
The Invention of Ana: A Novel | Mikkel Rosengaard
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Combining the infectious narration of Nick Hornbys Funny Girl, the philosophical lyricism of Roberto Bolaos The Savage Detectives, and the mesmerizing power of Anna Norths The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, a breathtaking debut, brimming with youthful brio and irresistible humor, that chronicles a young mans friendship with a most peculiar artist. On a rooftop in Brooklyn on a spring night, a young intern and would-be writer, newly arrived from Copenhagen, meets the intriguing Ana Ivan. Clever and funny, with an air of mystery and melancholia, Ana is a performance artist, a mathematician, and a self-proclaimed time traveler. She is also bad luck, she confesses; she is from a cursed Romanian lineage. Before long, the intern finds himself seduced by Anas enthralling storiesof her unlucky countrymen; of her parents romance during the worst years of Nicolae Ceaucescus dictatorship; of a Daylight Savings switchover gone horribly wrong. Ana also introduces him to her latest artistic endeavor. Following the astronomical rather than the Gregorian calendar, she is trying to alter her sense of timean experiment that will lead her to live in complete darkness for one month. Descending into the blackness with Ana, the intern slowly loses touch with his own existence, entangling himself in the lives of Ana, her starry-eyed mother Maria, and her raging math-prodigy father Ciprian. Peeling back the layers of her past, he eventually discovers the perverse tragedy that has haunted Anas family for decades and shaped her journey from the streets of Bucharest to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and finally to New York City. The Invention of Ana blurs the lines between narrative and memory, perception and reality, identity and authenticity. In his stunning debut novel, Mikkel Rosengaard illuminates the profound power of stories to alter the world around usand the lives of the ones we love.
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Beckys_Books
The Invention of Ana: A Novel | Mikkel Rosengaard
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Lost interest...

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Beckys_Books
The Invention of Ana: A Novel | Mikkel Rosengaard
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Merry Christmas to all!

My gift to myself is to abandon both these books. I have so many others I want to read and these just aren't cutting it.

My grandmother made this stocking for me 48 years ago!

tpixie Good for you!!! What a wonderful stocking!! 6y
BookwormAHN Merry Christmas 🎄 6y
Dragon Love ❤️ your stocking! Merry Christmas 🎄! 💚🐉 6y
Redwritinghood Merry Christmas!🎄 6y
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Rissa1
The Invention of Ana: A Novel | Mikkel Rosengaard
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Panpan

2🌟 I didn't like how long the parts of this book were. There never seemed to be a good stopping point.
I could not stay interested in this book. I would love parts of this book and be completely bored with other parts. I had hoped for more. #Giveawaywinner #ARC

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Rissa1
The Invention of Ana: A Novel | Mikkel Rosengaard
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My wall of shelves is finished! I love my husband for building these for me. I now have my own book area!!! ALL the books I have read are now singly stacked, and added to a digital library. (498 Not including my TBR pile. I may never leave this nook!😍📖❤

erzascarletbookgasm Very cool shelves! Super like! 7y
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Rissa1
The Invention of Ana: A Novel | Mikkel Rosengaard
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1. I heard the first if her stories one spring evening on a Brooklyn rooftop.
2. 70
3. Ex-playgrounds
4. Ana, Trisha Brown, Laurie Anderson, Walter Dr Maria, Gordon Matta-Clark
5. Black
6. I am not sure what I would classify this as , yet.
7. Who, Gates.
8. black
9.M.R.
10.no
11. 2018
12. None
13. No
14/15. No this is his Debut novel.

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Rissa1
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Why? Why when you know your daughter will be the first home? This was a tough read for me today. There was just a funeral for my husband's military buddy who shot himself, leaving behind 4 children.

Louise Oh, that's so heartbreaking! He must have been suffering so deeply that he wasn't thinking clearly anymore. 💙 7y
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Rissa1
The Invention of Ana: A Novel | Mikkel Rosengaard
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I have 2 sick kids who are napping. I am too tired for housework. My plans are to start this book, and snuggle up, under my old school Carebears blanket. #giveawaywinner #ARC #sickday #TheInventionOfAna

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heatherkaz
The Invention of Ana: A Novel | Mikkel Rosengaard
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Pickpick

An intern becomes completely obsessed over an artist whose life's tale is equal parts mysterious, sad, and passionate, just until he's on the precipice of his own self-destruction.

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Liberty
The Invention of Ana: A Novel | Mikkel Rosengaard
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Day 10 of the @bookriot #Riotgrams Challenge: book and a beverage! Today‘s reading + a chai almond milk latte. ❤️☕️📖

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WilliamMorrowBooks
The Invention of Ana: A Novel | Mikkel Rosengaard
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One of our favorite debuts this winter! The Invention Of Ana is a lyrical novel about a young writers friendship with a peculiar artist. It has a touch of magical realism that is perfect and intriguing! It goes on sale 2/13.

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