Lo Patrick is a former lawyer and current novelist living in the suburbs of Atlanta.
Her debut, The Floating Girls, earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly, was a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction, and was a Reader's Digest Editor's Pick.
Patrick's newest novel is The Sins of Summer Daughters.
At People magazine the author tagged nine must-read Southern Gothic novels. One title on the list:
Winter’s Bone by Daniel WoodrellRead about the other novels on the list.
Nobody writes the hard edge of the South better, or poverty and isolation. Winter’s Bone is also an excellent example of theoften warped trajectory of adolescence in some rural communities. Kids are asked to take on adult responsibilities, leaning on years of dysfunction as their preparation.
Winter's Bone is among Louisa Luna's four difficult women characters worth celebrating, Carl Vonderau's nine greatest moral compromises in crime fiction, Adam Sternbergh's six top crime novels that double as great literature and Lauren Passell's ten must-read books that take place in the Midwest.
--Marshal Zeringue
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