false <![CDATA[Mistik Lake]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180395560m/1034781.jpg 638681 4 <div><div>Seventeen-year-old Odella is haunted by family secrets. Why doesn&#8217;t her great-aunt Gloria visit anymore? Why does her mother, Sally, drink so much? Sally&#8217;s tragic car accident on a frozen lake when she was sixteen seems to have cast a spell over her life that no one can break. Odella tries to hold her family together, but when her mother runs off, the family is left reeling. Then Odella meets Jimmy Tomasson, whose dreams of prophetic flying fish seem to have led him to her. In the heat and tenderness of their deepening feelings and in his belief in her, Odella begins to find the strength to unravel the web of secrets that has ensnared them all.<br> <br>This stunning novel, written in spare, elegant prose and told from multiple points of view, explores the lives of three generations of women in one family, revealing what happens when you don&#8217;t have the courage to follow your own heart, and what can happen when you do.</div></div> 624903 21 8 2007 Mistik Lake total:152|5:34|4:58|3:46|2:14|1:0| 152 568 249 42 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 25 07:13:06 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 07:13:06 -0800 2008
This a young adult novel focusing on the family secrets of 17-year-old Odella. Mistik Lake is where her mother grew up and where her family has a summer ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 14:37:17 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 16:41:21 -0700 2009 Odella is a 17 year-old girl who has lost her mother in many ways. She is a strong intelligent girl, who is beyond her years more than is fair. When th...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 06 03:30:07 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 03:30:21 -0700 2008
For some people, the times in their lives in which everything finally comes together are the same times that everything falls apart.

Meet Odella, a teenage girl whose family is drowning in secrets. Odella and her two sisters are adjustin...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 13:23:43 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 16:35:30 -0700 2008
"Mistik Lake" contains an array of small town characters whose l...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 07:28:58 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 07:29:15 -0800 2008
In 1981, her niece Sally and some other high school kids were driving on frozen Mistik Lake and it went through the ice. Sally was the only survivor.

In 2000, Sally runs off with an icelandic filmmaker, and her oldest daughter Odella ha...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 22 11:33:52 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 11:35:55 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 18 11:40:16 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 25 16:25:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 23:26:25 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 23:26:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 17:17:37 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 15:34:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 11:25:13 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 14:56:04 -0700 2009 Mistik Lake. Especially Aunt Gloria's, because I felt that her story could have remained secret.
Martha Brooks did a masterful job of slowly and with impeccable timing, unfolding all the secrets that shape Odella's life, a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 11:25:35 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 01 13:45:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 14:29:12 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 14:30:36 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 08 18:37:11 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 18:45:11 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 10:01:33 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 08:58:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Aug 22 11:49:59 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 11:51:22 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jun 08 09:41:16 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 17:35:09 -0700 2008 Odella was only 17 – she was *not* prepared when her mother left her, her sisters, and their father in Manitoba and moved to Iceland with another man. It seemed like Odella’s whole life her mother had been haunted by a c...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 12:02:21 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 12:04:19 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 15:52:33 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 15:57:19 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 16:55:16 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 16:56:03 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 17:26:29 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 17:49:52 -0800 2007
Yet another book I would give a rating of 3 and 1/2 stars, if it were possible.

I finished this simply written book in a...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1034781