The Angel of Lake Bastrop

The Angel of Lake Bastrop is a homecoming story that blends elements of mystery and magical realism in a Rust Belt Gothic setting. It follows a disaffected journalist who returns to her hometown for the first time in years when her mother joins a cult that claims to have a grief-healing angel. While investigating, she confronts an old flame turned cult leader, the world she left behind, and a loss she’s avoided her whole life.