Night Crawler Lake

<p><em>Night Crawler Lake</em> is an imaginative foray into magic realism where fantasy and reality twine together in the mind of a small-town Minnesota boy named Eric Luft. At times frightened or confused he has learned to ignore his waking dreams or hallucinations. He and his small group of friends live in Black Goose Falls a town of deep German and Norwegian heritage; a town defined by church spires grain elevators a lovely old library and Indian burial mounds. Eric at times wanders alone through surrounding abandoned farms fields and state forest lands. In so doing he finds both grief and a form of release. It is up to the individual reader to weigh the cost to Eric and his community. Readers and reviewers of this novel will find humor and pathos nostalgia and relevance and a good dose of the supernatural. So come take an evening walk through the woods to <em>Night Crawler Lake</em>.</p>