Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney celebrates Lake Effect on April 16th at 6pm

Schedule

Thu Apr 16 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Barnes & Noble - Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA

Join B&N Philly for a discussion and signing with Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney with Jennifer Weiner on Thursday, April 16th at 6pm
About this Event

Join and Barnes & Noble Philadelphia on Thursday, April 16th at 6pm at Barnes & Noble Philadelphia (1708 Chestnut Street) for a discussion of , a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one lovestruck decision that will reverberate for decades.

She will be joined in conversation by .

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ABOUT

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney is the author of the instant New York Times bestselling novels The Nest (named a best book of the year by People, the Washington Post, and NPR) and Good Company (a Read with Jenna selection). She has been a guest on Today, Late Night with Seth Meyers and NPR’s All Things Considered. Her work has been translated into more than twenty-eight languages, and The Nest is in development as a limited series with AMC Studios. Sweeney holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She and her husband live in New York City.


ABOUT

It’s 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York, a place long fueled by the booming fortunes of Kodak and Xerox and, for some, the mores of the Catholic church. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced friend, she can no longer dismiss the nearly nonexistent 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 prominent neighbor 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 humor 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


ABOUT

Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nineteen novels, including Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, Mrs. Everything, and The Breakaway. She lives with her family in Philadelphia.

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