The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards

Kim Edwards, a Kentucky author, is back with a new book named The Lake of Dreams.  This was in the works before Memory Keeper’s Daughter and Edwards took a two year leave from U of K to finish writing the book.

The novel opens with Lucy Jarrett coming home from Japan to her childhood home in Lake of Dreams, New York.  Lucy has avoided home because of her father’s unresolved death in a fishing accident.  Her brother Blake has gone into the family business and joined up with her uncle in a controversial project to develop the area’s wetlands.  Lucy takes care of her injured mother and reconnects with her first love Keegan Fall, a glass artist. Everything changes when Lucy discovers letters linked to the suffrage movement of the early 1900’s and an heirloom tapestry. The tapestry is bordered with interlocking spheres—an ancient symbol that appears in stained-glass windows crafted by a local artist almost a century ago.  Thus begins a quest that will force Lucy to rewrite her family’s history and her own.  Every element emerges as a carefully placed piece of a puzzle. 

This novel is not just about family history but love and redemption and should have a wide appeal for readers.