I recently finished Sarah Addison Allen’s latest book, Lost
Lake. It did not disappoint. It had all of the elements that make her stories
both lovely and magical.
It’s about a young woman who after a loss takes her daughter
to visit her great-aunt whom she hasn’t seen in quite some time. While visiting
her great-aunt she meets some interesting characters and memories from her
childhood resurface leading her on a new adventure.
Now that was a very vague description because I’m always
afraid I’m going to give away too much, but what I really want to talk about is
a unique reoccurring thing in all of Sarah Addison Allen’s books. In every
single one of her stories most of the characters are self-employed. They own sandwich
shops, sporting goods stores, catering companies etc. I don’t know if that is intentional
but I really like that element. It allows their jobs to be flexible around the
story. So instead of a character working as a marketing executive for a big
company and waiting for 5pm so that they can go out and continue their
adventure they can get up in the middle of the day and keep the story rolling
on. I don’t know why I notice things like that but it just jumped out at me.
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