"McLemore successfully binds the novel’s fantasy elements to the inner lives of their characters. "Like Lore, who defiantly states, “I am a brown girl, just like I’m a brown boy, just like I’m both and neither, in different proportions depending on the day,” Lakelore celebrates the strength and imprecise elegance of claiming your own truth." "Delivers mesmerizing magical realism, brilliant portrayals of gender transitioning and genderfluidity, and sensitive representations of living with ADHD and dyslexia.This magnificent YA novel urges acceptance and support, reminding readers that different isn't wrong, it's beautiful." -Shelf Awareness, starred review "In this sumptuous tale of magical realism told via alternating perspectives, McLemore holds up realities of being neurodivergent while otherwise marginalized alongside strong friendships and vital family relationships that ground the protagonists." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "An astonishingly beautiful love letter to neurodivergent and nonbinary teens cast amid a magical lake setting that will pull you in right along with the characters." - Booklist, starred review "McLemore crafts vivid magic that balances scenes of overwhelming, unregulated emotions given life by the lake with soothing, sincere moments of love, self-affirmation, and gentle humor.A beauty both bright and deep." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review There’s just one problem: Bastián and Lore haven’t spoken in seven years, and working together means trusting each other with the very things they’re trying to hide. If Bastián and Lore don’t want it bringing their secrets to the surface with it, they have to stop it, and to do that, they have to work together. The world under the lake drifts above the surface. Then the lines between air and water begin to blur.
Lore’s only seen the world under the lake once, but that one encounter changed their life and their fate. Bastián grew up both above the lake and in the otherworldly space beneath it. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who’ve been there. In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pulled into a magical world under a lake - but can they keep their worlds above water intact?Įveryone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water.
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