45. The Lake of Dreams - Kim Edwards

2011, Viking

377 pgs.

Finished September 30, 2013 (much of it read on Southwest, traveling back and forth between PA and AZ)

Adult CRF

Goodreads Rating: 3.18

My Rating:  Liked it a lot (4) 

Acquired: TPPL

Setting: Contemporary upstate New York, with forays into 1911-1930ish  history of the same area

My comments:  The Lake of Dreams is the name of the (fake) town in upstate New York where this book takes place, somewhere in the area that contains Rochester and Seneca Falls.  I've been up there a number of times, it's beautiful country (in the summer) and I could picture this all in my mind, as the setting is a huge part of the story. Family history, family mysteries, unwinding stories, long-lost love and the growing-up-together kind of love, reminiscing about the past and making life-changing discoveries and decisions -- all are a part of this very interesting story.

Goodreads Review:  Lucy Jarrett is at a crossroads in her life, still haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade earlier. She returns to her hometown in Upstate New York, The Lake of Dreams, and, late one night, she cracks the lock of a window seat and discovers a collection of objects. They appear to be idle curiosities, but soon Lucy realizes that she has stumbled across a dark secret from her family's past, one that will radically change her—and the future of her family—forever.