About this event
Join us for our December adult book discussion of Lake Effect by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney in the RML Reading Room on Monday, December 7th at 6:30pm and Wednesday, December 9th at 9:30am.
It's 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York, a place long fueled by the booming fortunes of Kodak and Xerox, and for some, the mores of the Catholic church. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced friend, she can no longer dismiss the nearly nonexistent intimacy of her marriage. Just as her oldest child, Clara, is falling in love for the first time, Nina finds herself longing for the forbiden: a midlife awakening. Written with Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's signature humor and insight, Lake Effect is a wise and probing look at love and desire, mothers and daughters, loss and grief, and what we owe the people we love most.
Copies are available one month prior to discussion.