Thursday, April 4, 2024

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

 


My Rating: 4.6


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.


As with all of Patchett's work, this is about people - their lives, the dynamics and the many layers of their lives. It is well told and makes you feel like you know all of the characters intimately. 

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