Magnet Book Club: "Lake Overturn" by Vestal McIntyre

March Book Club selection, "Lake Overturn," is available at A Different Light for 10% off when you mention Magnet! [A] deliriously colorful and deliciously engrossing tapestry of a small-towns depressing poverty, pointless pettiness, quirky rivalries, domestic infidelities, desperate drug use, onerous class and race divisions and occasional quiet, sentimental triumphs. (Q Syndicate) Reading Vestal McIntyres deliriously ambrosial novel is like entering readers heaven. Constantly surprising. . . . I loved it. (Peter Cameron) Lake Overturn is a lovingly rendered portrait of small-town America. Vestal McIntyre knows his people intimatelyhow they speak, their manners and customs; but, most importantly, he knows their troubled hearts, and he plumbs the depths of those hearts with remarkable empathy and wisdom. (Ron Rash) Every character in [Lake Overturn] 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) Striking. . . . An author is lucky to bring one character so vividly to life: the gifted McIntyre...has done it for all of his. It may seem odd praise for a writer, but its among the highest: as you drink in this book, you barely notice the words. (New York Times Book Review ) A vast, intricate lattice of relationships, reminiscent of the novels of Richard Russo. . . . McIntyre is an honest enough artist that he [is] . . . capable of handling even the most noxious elements when he stirs his American backwater. (Washington Post) [A] nicely handled exploration of the worlds effect on the tightly woven life of a small town driven by faith. (Denver Post)