Tom Lake

A Reese's Book Club Pick

    • 4.1 • 1.6K Ratings
    • $15.99
    • $15.99

Publisher Description

#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 lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2023
August 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Harper
SELLER
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
SIZE
2.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Swan S. ,

girly book

But well written enough. Surprised that I finished it.

ClairXNess ,

Couldn’t even complete

This book is very boring and most of my book club members couldn’t even finish. I DONT get the hype. I would give it a zero out of 5 if I could.

Kimbo V ,

Just okay..

Call me crazy but I think this was an easy write for Ann and she went with the $$$. This book assumes you know all about the play that the book is about and it’s catch-up time the whole time if you don’t. I enjoyed the characters but couldn’t wait to just finish it and move on .I have enjoyed Patchett books before but this one is a dud.

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