Lake City

Lake City is a darkly funny and extremely relevant debut novel about American inequality and moral authority featuring a sadsack antihero who takes way too long to grow up. When he finally does the results are beautiful and the book ultimately becomes an elegy for a nowgone Seattle and a lesson in how the place were from never fully lets us go. Anthony Doerr author of All the Light We Cannot See . . Hunkered down in his childhood bedroom in Seattle''s wornout Lake City neighborhood idealistic but selfserving striver Lane Bueche licks his wounds and hatches a plot to win back his estranged Manhattanite wife.. . He discovers a precarious path forward when he is contracted by a wealthy adoptive couple to seduce and sabotage a troubled birth mother from his neighborhood. Lane soon finds himself in a zerosum game between the families as he straddles two cultures classes and worlds. Until finally with the wellbeing of the toddler at stake Lane must choose between wanting to do the right thing (if he could only figure out what that is) and reclaiming his idea of privilege. . . Snarky social commentary on the world of Seattle havenots. Kirkus Reviews