LAKE OVERTURN by Vestal McIntyre
Tuesday, March 29
7:30pm @ Magnet
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March Book Club selection, Lake Overturn, is available at A Different Light for 10% off when you mention Magnet book club!
“Reading Vestal McIntyre’s deliriously ambrosial novel is like entering reader’s heaven. Constantly surprising. . . . I loved it.” (Peter Cameron)
“Lake Overturn is a lovingly rendered portrait of small-town America. Vestal McIntyre knows his people intimately—how they speak, their manners and customs; but, most importantly, he knows their troubled hearts, and he plumbs the depths of those hearts with remarkable empathy and wisdom.” (Ron Rash)
“Every character in [Lake Overturn] is so real, complex, and interesting, the scope of the novel at once so wide and so deep, the themes and ideas so thoroughly embodied by the story, I felt as if I were reading a modern-day Middlemarch.” (Kate Christensen)
“Striking. . . . An author is lucky to bring one character so vividly to life: the gifted McIntyre...has done it for all of his. It may
seem odd praise for a writer, but it’s among the highest: as you drink in this book, you barely notice the words.” (New York Times Book Review )
“A vast, intricate lattice of relationships, reminiscent of the novels of Richard Russo. . . . McIntyre is an honest enough artist that he [is] . . . capable of handling even the most noxious elements when he stirs his American backwater.” (Washington Post)
“[A] nicely handled exploration of the world’s effect on the tightly woven life of a small town driven by faith.” (Denver Post)
“[A] nicely handled exploration of the world’s effect on the tightly woven life of a small town driven by faith.” (Denver Post)
Saturday, February 19 @ 3pm
Join us for the official book release and signing event at the A Different Light bookstore. Author Greg Miraglia will be joined by several of the contributing authors including Sergeant Peter Thoshinsky, EMT Jessica McGuinness and Fire Captain Brett Dunckel.
Meg Day is a nationally awarded spoken word artist, published poet and arts educator for Youth Speaks in San Francisco. In 2006 she became San Diego’s first queer Spoken Word Grand Champion and held the title for three years. In 2009 she was named a “Top 30 Under 30” artist by OUT-ART magazine.
Chuck Forester is a Wisconsin raised, East Coast educated, San Francisco resident since 1971. He’s a writer, poet, memoirist and novelist. Active in local and national GLBT community, Chuck has bee partnered five years with John Cadle.
Billie Mandel is a fire-breathing femme novelist, transported half a lifetime ago from New York to the Bay Area. Excerpts from her novel-in-progress, tentatively titled The Possibility, have been previewed at the National Queer Arts Festival, Ladyfest Litfest, and SFinX.
Oscar Raymundo is a writer and multimedia artist originally from Guadalajara, Mexico. A Northwestern graduate, he is the event coordinator at A Different Light bookstore in San Francisco where he is currently at work on his first novel, The Pride (New Adult Fiction).
