April Books & Banter Fiction Book Club: Lake Effect by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
April 28 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Books & Banter is our general fiction book club, focusing on great new reads that matter! As always, our book clubs are free and open to all, and the book club pick is 10% off the regular price. You bring the conversation, we’ll provide the treats!
This month’s pick is Lake Effect by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
($30.00) Book club price: $27.00 Hardcover, 288 pp
From the NYT bestselling author of The Nest and Good Company comes this newest novel about the ripples one decision can send through generations. In 1977 Rochester, restlessness hangs over Cambridge Road as Nina Larkin questions the lack of intimacy in her marriage.
When a friend hands her The Joy of Sex, Nina is awakened to desires she can no longer ignore. A passionate affair with a prominent neighbor offers the freedom she’s craved—but shatters the stability of both families and devastates her teenage daughter, Clara. Decades later, Clara, now a successful food stylist in New York City, remains haunted by the scandal that reshaped her youth.
Returning home for a family wedding, she faces old wounds and new choices in this wise, insightful novel about desire, forgiveness, and the complicated bonds between mothers and daughters.