“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.”
—Denver Post
“Reading Vestal McIntyre’s deliriously ambrosial novel is like entering reader’s heaven. Constantly surprising. . . . I loved it.”
—Peter Cameron, award-winning author of
The City of Your Final Destination
“Lake Overturn is a lovingly rendered portrait of small-town America. Vestal McIntyre knows his people intimately—how they speak, their manners and customs; but, most important, he knows their troubled hearts, and he plumbs the depths of those hearts with remarkable empathy and wisdom.”
—Ron Rash, author of Serena
“Lake Overturn 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 Middlemarch.”
—Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author of The Great Man
“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.”
—Adam Haslett, author of You Are Not a Stranger Here
ALSO BY VESTAL MCINTYRE
You Are Not the One: Stories
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FIRST HARPER PERENNIAL EDITION PUBLISHED 2010.
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ISBN 978-0-06-167126-5
EPub Edition © 2010 ISBN: 9780062028495
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