Lake Effect
Sweeney brings significant psychological acuity to everything from midlife sexuality to adolescent cafeteria drama to postpartum depression ... Richly engaging ... But in this narrative juggling act, balls get dropped ... Characters we’ve invested in disappear from the text ... Whatever strange part of the American psyche so yearns for a four-sibling détente might not be nourished, but it will be satisfied.
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While it doesn’t open with the weather, it relentlessly hits readers over the head with a snow shovel to make the point that Rochester is often cold and grey ... Can the sun shine once more after so many years of anger and estrangement? Maybe. Maybe not. This book explores all manner of bad weather.
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D’Aprix Sweeney draws crowds of readers, and this reverberating, intergenerational family saga is sure to please them.
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