Needle Lake by Champine, Justine
Needle Lake by Champine, Justine

Needle Lake

Two cousins on very different sides of teen girlhood spend a winter together that changes both of...
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Author: Justine Champine
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Needle Lake by Champine, Justine

Needle Lake

$43.33
Needle Lake by Champine, Justine

Needle Lake

$43.33
Author: Justine Champine
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Two cousins on very different sides of teen girlhood spend a winter together that changes both of their lives forever.

"A searing, unforgettable novel that captures the intense and dangerous alchemy of girlhood."--Chelsea Bieker, author of Madwoman

And once, after Elna came to stay, I watched a man drown there on Christmas Eve, his body trapped beneath the ice.

Fourteen-year-old Ida was born with a hole in her heart. Forbidden from most physical activities and considered strange by her teachers and peers, she prefers spending time alone, memorizing countries and capitals on her globe and imagining the world outside the tiny logging town of Mineral, Washington.

One afternoon, in walks her cousin Elna, there to stay for a few weeks. Ida hasn't seen Elna since they were children, and she's immediately drawn to her older cousin, who's everything Ida is not: confident, glamorous, charismatic, and daring. Elna lives in San Francisco, a city Ida has seen only as a dot on her globe. She doesn't treat Ida like she's a fragile kid whose heart might give out at any moment. She isn't scared off by Ida's quirks and fixations. Ida is enraptured.

Then, on Christmas Eve, a man dies out in the woods near Mineral, and the two cousins suddenly share a secret beyond the scope of anything Ida has dealt with before. Fear begins to mix with the reverence Ida feels toward her cousin, especially when she discovers Elna is hiding more than she ever suspected. Brimming with lush prose and careful observation, Needle Lake is an arresting portrait of girlhood and the overwhelming, sometimes dangerous intensity of adolescence.

Author: Justine Champine
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 12/02/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780593447239


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2025 pg. 89
Publishers Weekly 10/06/2025
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2025
Booklist 11/01/2025

About the Author
Justine Champine's short fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Epoch, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City. Needle Lake is her second novel, after her debut, Knife River.
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