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The Lake on Fire Bookseller Recommended there’s a lot of funRosellen Brown, author of ten celebrated books, is back with a gritty and absorbing novel situated in 19th century Chicago. The Lake on Fire is an epic narrative that begins among 19th century Jewish immigrants on a failing Wisconsin farm. Dazzled by lore of the American dream, Chaya and her strange, brilliant, young brother Asher stow away to Chicago; what they discover there, however, is a Gilded Age as empty a faade as the beautiful Colombian