~ Trade Paperback

~ Winner of the McKitterick Prize - 2003, the ALA Alex Award - 2003, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award - 2002, and the OLA Evergreen Award - 2005

Crow Lake is a deceptively simple masterpiece about the perils of hero worship in this universal drama of family love, misunderstandings, and harbored resentments.

Tragic, funny, unforgettable, Crow Lake is a rare find of a novel in its quiet assuredness.  Lawson dishes out their gripping, emotionally pitch perfect, and morally subtle story with heartbreaking humour and consummate control that overturns one's expectations until the very end.  

“Lawson delivers a potent combination of powerful character writing and gorgeous description of the land.  Her sense of pace and timing is impeccable throughout, and she uses dangerous winter weather brilliantly to increase the tension as the family battles to survive.  This is a vibrant, resonant novel by a talented writer whose lyrical evocative writing is on clear display.” -- Publishers Weekly