Lake Overturn A Novel Author:Vestal Mcintyre A Washington Post Best Book of the year — A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Eula, Idaho, has never seen a battle, an earthquake, or a Democrat in City Hall. Yet life here is anything but simple. Lina's angry son JesÚs has recently returned to the trailer park after living with wealthy white foster parents. Her younge... more »r son Enrique and his best friend, Genewho lives in a neighboring trailer with his very Christian mother, Connieare 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 localsincluding 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. With sweeping perspective and a Victorian wealth of character, Lake Overturn exposes small-town America in all its beauty and treachery, sunshine and secrets.« less
This is a wonderful book. The characters just draw you in to the point that, when you put the book down, you're still wondering what they are all up to when you aren't reading it.