Lake Overturn

“Striking.... An author is lucky to bring one character so vividly to life: the gifted McIntyre has done it for all of his.” — *New York Times Book Review*

“I felt as if I were reading a modern-day *Middlemarch*.” — Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of *The Great Man*

A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award, *Lake Overturn* is the stirring debut novel of small-town America from critically acclaimed author Vestal McIntyre ( *You Are Not the One* ). With intricate plots involving an array of fully realized characters, and dealing with themes such as autism, homosexuality, religion, and addiction, *Lake Overturn* is sure to appeal to fans of the literary work of Russell Banks ( *The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction* ), Rick Moody ( *The Ice Storm* ), Augusten Burroughs ( *Running with Scissors* ), and Alice Munro ( *The Moons of Jupiter, The Love of a Good Woman* ).