{"product_id":"lake-overturn-a-novel-isbn-9780061671265","title":"Lake Overturn: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Striking.... An author is lucky to bring one character so vividly to life: the gifted McIntyre has done it for all of his.” —\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I felt as if I were reading a modern-day \u003cem\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/em\u003e.” — Kate Christensen, PEN\/Faulkner Award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Great Man\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award, \u003cem\u003eLake Overturn\u003c\/em\u003e is the stirring debut novel of small-town America from critically acclaimed author Vestal McIntyre (\u003cem\u003eYou Are Not the One\u003c\/em\u003e). With intricate plots involving an array of fully realized characters, and dealing with themes such as autism, homosexuality, religion, and addiction, \u003cem\u003eLake Overturn\u003c\/em\u003e is sure to appeal to fans of the literary work of Russell Banks (\u003cem\u003eThe Sweet Hereafter, Affliction\u003c\/em\u003e), Rick Moody (\u003cem\u003eThe Ice Storm\u003c\/em\u003e), Augusten Burroughs (\u003cem\u003eRunning with Scissors\u003c\/em\u003e), and Alice Munro (\u003cem\u003eThe Moons of Jupiter, The Love of a Good Woman\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the year \u003cbr\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Editors' Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eEula, Idaho, has never seen a battle, an earthquake, or a Democrat in City Hall. Yet life here is anything but simple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLina's angry son Jesús has recently returned to the trailer park after living with wealthy white foster parents. Her younger son Enrique and his best friend, Gene—who lives in a neighboring trailer with his very Christian mother, Connie—are misfits who cling to their studies in the face of schoolyard cruelties. Determined to win the statewide science fair, Enrique and Gene devise an experiment involving \"lake overturn,\" a phenomenon in which deadly gases erupt from a lake's depths. In their endeavor to discover if Eula could suffer from such an event, the boys come into contact with an odd assortment of locals—including a frail-hearted school principal with grand ambitions, a lonely lawyer who finds new love as his wife is dying, and a woman who decides to escape a life of exploitation and addiction by becoming a surrogate mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith sweeping perspective and a Victorian wealth of character, \u003cem\u003eLake Overturn\u003c\/em\u003e exposes small-town America in all its beauty and treachery, sunshine and secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eA Best Book of 2009 - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Set in the age of \u003ci\u003eDallas\u003c\/i\u003e and Haley’s comet, McIntyre’s striking first novel follows an ensemble cast in Eula, Idaho. . . . McIntyre establishes the idiosyncratic cultures of their minds—their tics and imaginative flights, the bargains they strike with themselves. An author is lucky to bring one character so vividly to life: the gifted McIntyre, who previously published a story collection called \u003ci\u003eYou Are Not the One\u003c\/i\u003e has done it for all of his. It may seem odd praise for a writer, but it’s among the highest: as you drink in this book, you barely notice the words.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] nicely handled exploration of the world’s effect on the tightly woven life of a small town driven by faith.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] deliriously colorful and deliciously engrossing tapestry of a small-town’s depressing poverty, pointless pettiness, quirky rivalries, domestic infidelities, desperate drug use, onerous class and race divisions – and occasional quiet, sentimental triumphs.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eQ Syndicate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Striking. . . . An author is lucky to bring one character so vividly to life: the gifted McIntyre...has done it for all of his. It may seem odd praise for a writer, but it’s among the highest: as you drink in this book, you barely notice the words.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A vast, intricate lattice of relationships, reminiscent of the novels of Richard Russo. . . . McIntyre is an honest enough artist that he [is] . . . capable of handling even the most noxious elements when he stirs his American backwater.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What a great relief [it is] to read Vestal McIntyre’s splendid first novel. . . . Lake Overturn is loving and searing and sad and, above all, a pleasure to read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Haslett, author of You Are Not a Stranger Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Every character in [Lake Overturn] is so real, complex, and interesting, the scope of the novel at once so wide and so deep, the themes and ideas so thoroughly embodied by the story, I felt as if I were reading a modern-day Middlemarch.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKate Christensen, PEN\/Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vestal McIntyre centers his first novel in and around the small, seemingly idyllic town of Eula, Idaho, where all daily life appears to be an open secret. . . . As outsiders, the boys and their mothers become the author’s most effective tools in this nicely handled exploration of the world’s effect on the tightly woven life of a small town driven by faith.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This astonishing novel — a great big captivating, multi-character drama set in Eula, Idaho — has McIntyre juggling a half-dozen intersecting plots and people with extraordinary grace.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Gay News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Keeps] us engrossed from the beginning. . . . He illuminates with humor and sympathy the mundane lives of a group of vivid characters.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Richly imagined and fully realized, Overturn has given us what we didn’t know we were waiting for: the next Great Idahoan Novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOut Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLake Overturn\u003c\/i\u003e is a lovingly rendered portrait of small-town America. Vestal McIntyre knows his people intimately—how they speak, their manners and customs; but, most importantly, he knows their troubled hearts, and he plumbs the depths of those hearts with remarkable empathy and wisdom.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRon Rash, author of Serena\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLake Overturn\u003c\/i\u003e is such a good novel that I read it as slowly as I could to make it last and hated to see it end.  Every character in it is so real, complex, and interesting, the scope of the novel at once so wide and so deep, the themes and ideas so thoroughly embodied by the story, I felt as if I were reading a modern-day \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKate Christensen, PEN\/Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For nearly thirty years now we’ve been told that we are divided by religion and by region – Christian fundamentalists against secular progressives, the rural middle against the urban coast – and across the divide we’ve stared at one another, aided in our vision by little more than clichés.  What a great relief, then, to read Vestal McIntyre’s splendid first novel, which renders such simplifications obsolete one character at a time, giving us instead, in all their broken, human form, the single mothers living in the respectable half of the trailer park and their brainy, lovelorn kids and perhaps McIntyre’s finest creation – the drug-addled sister of the school bus driver who longs to bear a child (she will break your heart).  Lake Overturn is loving and searing and sad and, above all, a pleasure to read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Haslett, author of You Are Not a Stranger Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reading Vestal McIntyre’s deliriously ambrosial novel is like entering reader’s heaven. Constantly surprising . . . I was shocked—shocked!—to discover an American  novel about life in the late 20th century that is this ambitious, this accomplished, this compassionate, this funny, and this wise.  I loved it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Cameron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reading Vestal McIntyre’s deliriously ambrosial novel is like entering reader’s heaven. Constantly surprising. . . . I loved it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Cameron, award-winning author of The City of Your Final Destination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887867424997,"sku":"NP9780061671265","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061671265.jpg?v=1730227626","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/lake-overturn-a-novel-isbn-9780061671265","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}