Black Lake - by Johanna Lane (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"A lush, beguiling beauty, like the Ireland of its setting"* about a family losing grip of its legacy: a castle estate on the cliffs of Donegal. </strong><br /> <br /> <strong>*Elisa Albert, author of <em>The Book of Dahlia </em></strong><br /> <br /> The Campbells have lived happily at Dulough, an idyllic, rambling estate on the Irish coast, for generations. But upkeep has drained the family coffers. Faced with the heartbreaking possibility of having to sell, John Campbell makes a difficult decision; to keep Dulough he will turn the estate into a tourist attraction. <br /> <br /> He and his wife, daughter and son move from the luxury of the big house to a caretaker's cottage. The upheaval strains the already tenuous threads that bind the family, and when a tragic accident befalls them, long-simmering resentments and unanswered yearnings are forced to the surface. <br /> <br /> As each character is given a turn to speak, their voices tell a complex and fascinating story about what happens when the upstairs becomes the downstairs, and the legacy that remains when family secrets are revealed. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>Black Lake</i> beautifully illuminates the gossamer filaments that bind a family to the land and to each other."<br>--<b><i>Charlotte Rogan, New York Times bestselling author of The Lifeboat</b></i><br><br>"<i>Black Lake</i> is my favorite sort of book, a gripping story and a precise, insightful study of the inner lives and also daily lives of people to whom life has done its often brutal work. The setting, the circumstances, are odd and memorable. The emotions are recognizable, but no less memorable. <i>Black Lake</i>, quiet, deceptively simple, and deeply moving, will stay with me over time."--<b><i>Robin Black, author of Life Drawing</b></i><br><br>"A contemporary writer of great promise whose book reads like a classic, debut novelist Lane skillfully demonstrates how grief both erodes and reinforces the bonds of a family. Her subtle, crystalline style calls to mind the prose of Colm Tóibín; her narrative pacing is reminiscent of Kate Chopin's."--<b><i>Library Journal (starred review)</b></i><br><br>"A lush, beguiling beauty, like the Ireland of its setting. Novels like this one don't get written very often; when they do we remember why we love novels in the first place."--<b><i>Elisa Albert, author of The Book of Dahlia</b></i><br><br>"I cannot tell you how moved I was by BLACK LAKE<i>..</i> I turned the pages with such ease! It was so beautifully written. Again and again I was caught up by the precise but unpretentious prose. I believed this story because of the voice, the voices, the details, the familiar yet strange things of these people's lives ...Lane conveys without any mawkishness the loss of this lovely place in the lives of this family, and the loss in all our lives of a childhood place wherever and whatever it was..."--<b><i>Sheila Kohler, author of Becoming Jane Eyre</b></i><br><br>"In BLACK LAKE<i></i>Johanna Lane accomplishes the nearly miraculous: she paints the world of her story with such care and skill that, before you know it, it will feel more real than your own. And you won't want to leave it. In Lane's hands the smallest details bloom with meaning, the quietest moments resonate with the power of truth. They make this novel big. It takes on the largest of themes, the thunder-clap moments of life, wresting from them a wisdom rare in any writing, and simply remarkable in a debut. Bit by gentle bit, this beautiful book will break your heart."--<b><i>Josh Weil, author of The Great Glass Sea</b></i><br><br>"Johanna Lane's lovely novel is jeweled with shrewd insights into childhood and the way people relate to habitation and place. It's a book to admire and immerse yourself in."--<b><i>Amit Chaudhuri, author of The Immortals</b></i><br><br>"Quiet novels like Black Lake don't get much air-time, but it's worth cutting through the noise and losing yourself in this gently devastating read."--<b><i>Harper's Bazaar (UK)</b></i><br><br>"Sparkling... Lane describes the Campbells' world with such simple, intense prose that the reader feels the claustrophobia of the small cottage, the wonder of the sea, the rate and tension that permeates the home."--<b><i>Bustle</b></i><br><br>"Unsettling, impressively crafted, and bananas-insightful about marriage, family, and why we hide things from people we love."--<b><i>BookRiot</b></i><br><br>In this beautiful portrait of a family faced with unbearable loss, Lane reveals, not only what slips between the cracks in everyday communication, but also the secret loves and longings we all harbor, even if we never allow our hearts to speak, or our minds to dwell upon, what we need to say and hear, in order to continue as whole and undamaged spirits...a very, very good novel."--<b><i>John Burnside, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize</b></i><br><br>"The intricacies of the Campbell family are fascinating, a stunningly accurate portrait of a quartet of people stuck together for a lifetime by no choice of their own, who deal with this turn of events through routine, familiarity, and lies--the same way we all do... But Lane's cold Irish pool of a novel is exactly the kind of place you want to visit again and again."--<b><i>The Rumpus</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Johanna Lane</b> was born in Ireland, studied English Literature in Scotland, and earned her MFA at Columbia University. She teaches writing in New York City.
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