Lake People is a haunting, luminous novel set in a small New Hampshire town. As an infant, Alice Thornton was discovered in Kettleborough, in a boathouse by the lake, adopted by a young childless couple, and raised with no knowledge of the women who came before her. As Alice edges ever closer to her past, Lake People beautifully evokes the interweaving of family history and individual fate, and the intangible connections we feel to the place where we were born. (excerpted from the publisher's blurb)
I haven't gotten this book read yet, but it is popping up all over the place (a StarTribute review, an LJ review, a Booklist Review, a profile in the TV section of the Sunday Union Leader ...) and there are several upcoming events at local bookstores with Abi Maxwell:
On Tuesday, 3/5/2013 Abi Maxwell will be talking about her new book at Water Street Bookstore (7pm).
On Thursday, 3/7/2013 White Birch Books is hosting a luncheon with Abi Maxwell
Gibson's Bookstore will host an event with Abi Maxwell on Thursday, 3/21/2013 starting at 7pm.
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