# Lake Effect

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- Authors: [Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney](https://www.bookquiver.com/cynthia-daprix-sweeney)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2026-03-12
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Romance

## Description

It’s 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced friend, she can no longer dismiss the nearly non-existent intimacy of her marriage. Just as her oldest child, Clara, is falling in love for the first time, Nina finds herself longing for the forbidden: a midlife awakening. An intoxicating fling with a neighbour brings Nina a freedom she never thought possible―but also risks the reputations of both families and unravels Clara’s world, just as she stands on the threshold of adulthood. Years later Clara, now a successful food stylist in New York City, has never been able to move past the long-ago scandal. Drawn back home by the pull of a family wedding and wrestling with her own demons, she makes a pivotal decision that turns her life upside down. Written with Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s signature humour and insight, LAKE EFFECT is a wise and probing look at love and desire, mothers and daughters, loss and grief, and what we owe the people we love most.

## Editions

### Lake Effect

- Publisher: The Borough Press
- ISBN: 978-00-0879-943-4
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2026-03-12
- Language: en_US