Banal Nightmare Maine and Carmen--embark on their second

and Carmen--embark on their second summer together

Riley Sager's The House Across the Lake is the ultimate escapist read

greedy Hollowers start circling

But strange things begin to happen as Luce tries to figure out where her mother has gone

"With its elegant photographs and gleaming

Banal Nightmare Maine and Carmen--embark on their secondA "vividly, chillingly current" (The Washington Post) novel by the author of The New Me, one of the boldest voices in American fiction "[Halle Butler's] talent lies in depicting how these sore winners think, and the quiet madness that comes from measuring every interaction in your life by what might be gained in power and status. . . . [Banal Nightmare is] her most accomplished novel." The New York Review of Books "So funny, so smart, utterly vicious