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The Lake on Fire is an epic narrative that begins among nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants on a failing Wisconsin farm. Dazzled by tales of the American dream, Chaya and her strange, brilliant, younger brother Asher stow away to Chicago. What they discover there, however, is a Gilded Age is as empty a façade as the beautiful Columbian Exposition attracting thousands to Lake Michigan's shore. The pair scrape together a meager living - Chaya in...
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