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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.

“Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.” —The Guardian

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family''s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the liv

Tom Lake

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    A Paperback / softback by Ann Patchett

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/08/2023
      ISBN13: 9780063335233, 978-0063335233
      ISBN10: 0063335239

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK

      In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.

      “Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.” —The Guardian

      In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family''s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

      Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the liv

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