Lake Effect

I took this book on my most recent Mexican getaway, and it was the perfect breezy page-turner I was looking for.

Set in Rochester in the late 1970s, this new novel from the author of Good Company drops us into a moment when everything in the culture felt like it was shifting . . . the cultural norms of marriage, motherhood, feminism, freedom.

At the epicenter is Nina, a mother of two girls, who begins to feel the quiet tug of a life she hasn’t fully claimed. When she allows herself to follow that instinct, including an impossible-to-ignore connection with a neighbor, the ripple effects move through two families and hit hardest of all in her relationship with her eldest daughter.

It’s perceptive and intensely human, the kind of novel that understands how messy and brave it can be to want more. Lake Effect is a thoughtful, emotional read that will have you mowing right through to the end.

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