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Tom Lake

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (not Tom Patchett) is a poignant and reflective novel that delves into family, memory, and the choices that shape our lives. Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the story revolves around Lara, a mother who recounts her youthful love affair with a famous actor to her three adult daughters, who have returned to the family orchard in Michigan during the lockdown.

 

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This is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor.
This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn’t famous at all.
It’s about falling so wildly in love with him – the way one will at twenty-four – that it felt like jumping off a roof at midnight.
There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end.

It’s spring and Lara’s three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they’ve always longed to hear – of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.

Additional information

Weight 0.614 kg
Dimensions 16.5 × 24.2 × 3.1 cm
Author

Format

Hardback
Language

English
Pages

320
Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

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