The Novel Views Fiction Book Discussion me ets in Group Study Room 5\, located on the lower level of the library\, in the Children's Room \;
\nJoin us to talk about this month's selection \;"Tom Lake" \;by Ann Patchett.
\n"In the spring of 202 0\, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Mich igan. While picking cherries\, they beg their mother to tell them the stor y of Peter Duke\, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a r omance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past\, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with the ir mother\, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they tho ught they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love\, married love\, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hope ful and elegiac\, it explores what it means to be happy even when the worl d is falling apart. As in all of her novels\, Ann Patchett combines compel ling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The r esult is a rich and luminous story\, told with profound intelligence and e motional subtlety\, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the mos t revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.."-- MCPL Catalogue .
\nPrint copies may be available at the Germantown Library after Ju ly 1\, 2026.
\nAvailable on Overdrive/Libby and on Hoopla as an eBoo k and as an \;eAudioBook. \;
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