Lake Effect

Lake EffectFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Nest and Good Company comes a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one lovestruck decision that will reverberate for decades. Its 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York, a place long fueled by the booming fortunes of Kodak and Xerox and, for some, the mores of the Catholic church. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of

Forster's heroine

Knight confronts his ultimate acting challenge

a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone the Astral Library has ever helped protect

“Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature

On virtually every level

the rarest and most powerful allomantic metal

“The characters are drawn with a generosity that allows them to be wrong but also right

Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died

and a hard-working dad

but don't call them open and shut

and people to the Earth

shit is f**ked and we have to live with it