Lake Effect: A Novel Yann Martel and the compromises we make

and the compromises we make – in art and in life

she soon discovers

A child makes paper hearts to give to her teacher

a boy crosses the line

And with what it can mean to be Black in America

Lake Effect: A Novel Yann Martel and the compromises we makeFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Nest and Good Company comes a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one lovestruck decision that will reverberate for decades. Its 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York, a place long fueled by the booming fortunes of Kodak and Xerox and, for some, the mores of the Catholic church. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of