Book Your Lunch with Kim Edwards January 21, 2012

Kim Edwards, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, now brings us the story of a woman’s emotional homecoming and newly discovered family history in the paperback release of her newest novel, The Lake of Dreams (Penguin, paperback, $16.00, on sale 11/29/11).

*Please note that the ticket price for this event includes one paperback copy of The Lake of Dreams (the book can be picked up from Fiction Addiction when the book releases in November, or we can bring it to the event for you). Kim will be signing any of her books at the event.

At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home to upstate New York from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father’s unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love, lead her into the unexpected. Late one night, as she paces the hallways of her family’s rambling lakeside house, she discovers, locked in a window seat, a collection of objects that first appear to be idle curiosities, but soon reveal glimpses of a hidden family history. As Lucy explores these traces of her lineage–from an heirloom blanket and dusty political tracts to a web of allusions depicted in stained-glass windows, both in her hometown and beyond–a new family history emerges, one that will link her to a unique slice of the suffragette movement, and yield dramatic insights that will free her to live her life to its fullest and deepest.

With revelations as captivating as the deceptions at the heart of her best-selling phenomenon, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards now gives us the story of a woman’s homecoming to the lake of her childhood, and the discovery of a secret past that will alter her understanding of her heritage, and herself, forever. A powerful family narrative and a story of love lost and found, The Lake of Dreams is an arresting novel in which every vibrant detail emerges as an organic piece of a puzzle. With her signature gifts for lyricism, suspense, and masterful storytelling, Kim Edwards’ new novel will delight those who loved The Memory Keeper’s Daughter and mesmerize new fans.

About the author:
Kim Edwards was born in Killeen, Texas. She grew up in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York and attended Colgate University and The University of Iowa, where she earned an MFA in Fiction an MA in Linguistics. She is also the author of the short-story collection The Secrets of a Fire King, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her stories have been published in The Paris Review, Story, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, and many other periodicals. She has won the Pushcart Prize, the National Magazine Award, the Nelson Algren Award, and has been included in The Best American Short Stories of 1993. Two of her stories were performed at Symphony Space and broadcast on “Selected Shorts”. Kim Edwards received a Whiting Writers’ Award, as well as grants from the Pennsylvania and Kentucky Arts Councils, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, her first novel, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Award pick and became a word-of-mouth bestseller and bookclub favorite, spending 122 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list, 20 of those weeks at #1. Published in more than 38 countries, it was also a bestseller in Italy, France, Germany, England, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Holland, and Taiwan. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter won the Kentucky Literary Award and the British Book Award, and was chosen as Book of the Year for 2006 by USA Today.

Her newest novel, The Lake of Dreams, was first published in hardcover in January 2011.

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