-OUT Magazine's Critic's Choice
"For nearly thirty years now we've been told that we are divided by religion and by region - Christian fundamentalists against secular progressives, the rural middle against the urban coast - and across the divide we've stared at one another, aided in our vision by little more than cliches. What a great relief, then, to read Vestal McIntyre's splendid first novel, which renders such simplifications obsolete one character at a time, giving us instead, in all their broken, human form, the single mothers living in the respectable half of the trailer park and their brainy, lovelorn kids and perhaps McIntyre's finest creation - the drug-addled sister of the school bus driver who longs to bear a child (she will break your heart). LAKE OVERTURN is loving and searing and sad and, above all, a pleasure to read."
- Adam Haslett, author of YOU ARE NOT A STRANGER HERE
