#227 – The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager (with Hannah, Rebecca, and Sarah of Can I Spoil Something?)

Tune in as Hannah, Rebecca, and Sarah (Can I Spoil Something?) join 2CC to unpack The House Across the Lake, the 2022 thriller novel by Riley Sager that follows a grieving and alcoholic actress as she spies on her neighbors while taking shelter at her family’s lake house in Vermont, where she ends up fixating on the mystery of one such neighbor who goes missing. How this book carries out its nonlinear storytelling, the many foolish choices that Casey makes as a protagonist, the polarizing ambition that this tale commits itself to, and Rear Window-inspired media comprise some of the subject matter on this episode. 

TW: death, alcohol, alcoholism, murder, grief, suicide (in the past), suicide attempt, child abuse (in the past), child abandonment (in the past), infidelity, and vomiting

Spoilers start at 19:20

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