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#1 \;NEW YORK TIMES \;BESTSELLER - A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
\nIn the spring of 2020\, Lara's three daughters return to the fami ly'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 sh e shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company call ed Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past\, her daughters examine their own li ves and relationship with their mother\, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on y outhful love\, married love\, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac\, it explores what it means t o be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels\, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insight s into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story\, told wit h profound intelligence and emotional acuity\, that demonstrates once agai n why she is one of the most acclaimed literary talents working today.
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