Lake Marvin used to know exactly what it was.

A fading resort town in the Poconos, equal parts old money, working-class stubbornness, and inherited tradition, it has spent decades quietly repeating itself. The same families run the same committees, host the same parties, fight the same feuds, and stage the same slightly tired Labor Day festival year after year. Nobody really questions it because nobody really questions Lake Marvin.

Reluctantly drawn into helping her formidable mother-in-law modernize the festival, Roxanne Glynn invites her son Dylan and his best friends to come from New York to help her brainstorm ideas.  Ideas lead to other participants and suddenly, unexpectedly, Lake Marvin loosens its collar.

Filled with wit, warmth, eccentric traditions, complicated families, cocktails and free-range drag queens, Lake Marvin Days is a joyful ensemble novel about second acts, chosen families, and the liberating chaos that ensues when a community finally allows itself to change.

Sometimes, saving a town means letting it become stranger, louder, more vulnerable and far more alive than it ever was before.