Rakestraw Books presents Novelist Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Schedule
Thu Mar 19 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Rakestraw Books | Danville, CA
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney visits on 19 March 2026 at 7 PM with new novel, The Lake Effect. She will be in conversation with Margaret Sexton.About this Event
Rakestraw Books is thrilled to invite to a special event with bestselling novelist Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney on Thursday, 19 March 2026 at 7 PM. During this visit Sweeney will be discussing her new novel, The Lake Effect, with Bay Area novelist Margaret Sexton. We think that this special event is one of that all sorts of book group readers will enjoy, so make plans to join us. Tickets are $10. Each ticket admits one person and includes $10 off your purchase of The Lake Effect that evening. Purchase tickets here on Eventbrite.
About The Lake Effect:
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nest and Good Company comes a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one lovestruck decision that will reverberate for decades.
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.
[Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney photo by Layna Nolan Ambron]
Where is it happening?
Rakestraw Books, 3 Railroad Avenue, Danville, United StatesUSD 11.49
