A major novel, a family saga, and a tour de force from an author constantly considered for the Nobel Prize.

Between “Gothic novel,” with the castle where all generations of the Bellefleur family live, located in the state of New York on the shores of the legendary Lake Noir, and “magical realism,” Joyce Carol Oates weaves a captivating family saga that, in her own words, would be the “most difficult and enthralling” she has ever written.