An Evening with Cynthia d’Aprix Sweeney

See Cynthia d’Aprix Sweeney as she discusses and signs her new book, Lake Effect, in conversation with Madhushree Ghosh. A witty, insightful novel about love, desire, and the complicated bond between mothers and daughters, as one family reckons with the past, Booklist praised the title as “A reverberating, intergenerational family saga… artful and fresh."

A book-signing will follow. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-served, subject to availability. Limited preferred seating is available with purchase of Lake Effect through Warwick's bookstore. Please visit https://www.warwicks.com/event/sweeney-2026 or call the store at 858-454-0347 for more information. 
 

About Lake Effect

It's 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 The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced friend, she can no longer dismiss the nearly nonexistent intimacy of her marriage. Just as her oldest child, Clara, is falling in love for the first time, Nina finds herself longing for the forbidden: a midlife awakening. An intoxicating fling with a prominent neighbor brings Nina a freedom she never thought possible—but also risks the reputations of both families and unravels Clara's world, just as she stands on the threshold of adulthood.

Years later, Clara, now a successful food stylist in New York City, has never been able to move past the long-ago scandal. Drawn back home by the pull of a family wedding and wrestling with her own demons, she makes a pivotal decision that turns her life upside down. Written with Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's signature humor and insight, Lake Effect is a wise and probing look at love and desire, mothers and daughters, loss and grief, and what we owe the people we love most.

About the Author

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney is the author of the instant New York Times bestselling novels The Nest (named a best book of the year by People, the Washington Post, and NPR) and Good Company (a Read with Jenna selection). She has been a guest on Today, Late Night with Seth Meyers and NPR’s All Things Considered. Her work has been translated into more than 28 languages, and The Nest is in development as a limited series with AMC Studios. Sweeney holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She and her husband live in New York City. 

About Madhushree Ghosh

Madhushree Ghosh is the author of the award-winning Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family (2022) and he forthcoming Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture Through Punjabi Food in the American West (2026). Ghosh is an invited speaker at major book festivals and her work has been published in 2023 Best American Essays in Food Writing, as well as Pushcart-nominated and published in The New York Times, Vogue India, Washington Post, LA Times, Catapult, BOMB, Guernica, LA Review of Books, LitHub, Panorama Journal, The Rumpus, Atlas Obscura, The Chicago Quarterly Review, The Surfers Journal, and others. She is also an Oakley Hall scholar, actor, and screenwriter, and her award-winning plays have been performed at San Diego Actors Alliance festivals. Ghosh is an invited author at Garnet News, as well as a science columnist at Construction Magazine, and has given TEDx talks. She is a frequent speaker on "Women in Science" panels globally and hosts multiple cooking classes on making Indian food, focusing on the science and health behind those culinary treats, in San Diego. In 2024, she launched KhabaarCo, a curated literary conversation and salon around food, our roots, social justice, and our words. She resides in Southern California.