Lake Song

Title: Lake Song
Author: Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
Fiction: 1689343
ISBN: 9780814259542
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Section: Fiction | Literary
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:

The linked stories of Lake Song, set in the fictional town of Kinder Falls in New York's Finger Lakes region, span decades to plumb the complexities, violence, and compassion of small-town life as the twentieth century hurtles forward. Against a backdrop of historical events--bootlegging, Klan attacks, gold smuggling, the Albany Ketchup Murders, the 1965 Northeast blackout--a generations-long mystery unwinds. In 1906 Mavis Staunch drowns in Okisee Lake days after she refuses to sell her land to a trio of brothers. The same night, one of the brothers, Angus Epps, doesn't come home. Few suspect the two events are connected, and no one imagines the role that a ten-year-old boy, a canoe, and a pack of coyotes play in the tragedies. Spiritualists, grifters, sugar makers, arsonists, seekers, and saleswomen wind through each other's lives and across decades to add layers of resonance to each captivating story. The mercurial lake that unites the people of Kinder Falls sustains as much as it haunts, both witness and diary.