Your Oasis on Flame Lake - Softcover

Landvik, Lorna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345487664 ISBN 13: 9780345487667

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2005

Synopsis

In the small Minnesota shore town of Flame Lake, a close-knit group of friends find their comfortable lives taking some unforeseen turns. Best friends Devera and BiDi were recently voted "Least Changed" at their twentieth high school reunion, but Devera is starting to think of the label as insulting. Sure, she loves her husband and still believes being a wife and mother is the main entree on life's plate...but she longs for some more exotic side dishes. Lorna Landvik, author of PATTY JANE'S HOUSE OF CURL, creates real, resilient people we come to know and love, and stories with brilliant wit and amazing resonance.

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From the Publisher

Excerpts from reviews of Lorna Landvik's Your Oasis on Flame Lake

"A hard-to-put-down novel that finds complexity and intrigue in the
simplest of
everyday lives and the simple friendships that offer comfort and support .
. .
Very clearly character driven, the storyline evolves from the nature and
motivations of the people Landvik renders."

--Middlesex News

"The novel builds to a well-crafted and suspenseful climax . . . [It is] a
fine, original novel, leavened with humor; very readable."

--Louisville Voice Tribune

"The story is freckled with laughter, sadness and life in general. It will
often remind you that those small things you take for granted are the ones
you will remember fondly in years to come."

--Rocky Mountain News

"In Your Oasis on Flame Lake, each of the characters tells his/her
own story. Lorna Landvik skillfully weaves each of these stories into one
interesting and attention-holding book."

--Marietta Journal

"Some writers do comedy really well. Others pen drama best. Luckily for
us, some manage to combine true wit and intense conflict in one narrative.
Lorna Landvik . . . manages this feat with aplomb in her latest novel."

--Boston Tab

From the Inside Flap

Best friends fast approaching forty in the small Minnesota town of Flame Lake, Devera and BiDi were recently voted "Least Changed" at their twentieth high school reunion--a label neither one finds very appealing. For each craves a change in her life: Devera desires a break from her humdrum marital routine; BiDi longs to reconnect with her distant fourteen-year-old daughter (the only girl on the high school hockey team), not to mention jump-start a sex drive stuck in neutral. So when Devera's husband decides to fulfill his longtime dream of opening a nightclub in his basement, Your Oasis on Flame Lake arrives not a moment too soon. Nothing fancy, it's just a BYOB joint where you can hang out, sing, dance, tell jokes, and be yourself. But then an unexpected crisis throws both families into chaos, forcing them all to take stock of their lives--and learn the power of forgiveness.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0345487664
• ISBN 13: 9780345487667
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 752