by Kim Edwards
First published 2011
Lucy Jarrett stands at a turning point. Ten years have passed since her father died under circumstances that never made sense, and the questions still eat at her. She comes back to her childhood home in upstate New York, to the small town called The Lake of Dreams where everything started. One night, she forces open the lock on an old window seat. Inside she finds a strange collection of items that look like random keepsakes. But as Lucy examines them more closely, she realizes these objects tell a story. They point to something her family kept hidden, something that happened long before she was born. The discovery pulls her deeper into a mystery that connects her father's death to events she never knew occurred. What she learns will force her to see her family in a completely different light and will reshape everything she thought she knew about her own future.
Genres: literary-fiction, mystery, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: The Lake of Dreams, New York
Period: 10 years ago
377 pages · Hardcover · Viking