The Lake

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Zachary Brannagan is a gifted young philosopher who decides he can no longer find meaning in intellectual abstraction. Following a failed suicide attempt, he embarks upon a cross-country journey that leads him to an ad hoc orphanage by a lake in the dark heart of the Louisiana wilderness. There he meets Anna Beuchamp and her charges, eleven physically and mentally impaired children. Zach and Anna are profoundly moved by one another; but the price of their love is tragedy.In this exquisite debut novel, Daniel Villasenor offers a passionate story crafted in muscular, economical prose which evokes consciousness with knife-edge precision, and presents a uniquely powerful vision of the American landscape.

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'A heartfelt, lyrical, often deeply beautiful exploration of a troubled young man's search for identity and redemption'. The Scotsman