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Tom Lake: A Reese's Book Club Pick Spiral-Bound | 2023-08-01

Ann Patchett

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#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. Read more
Publisher: HarperCollins
Original Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320 pages
Item Weight: 1.14 lbs
Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.3 x 8.9 inches
“Best of all in my reading experience this year was Ann Patchett's Tom Lake….It's a beautiful, loving story. And its echoes of Our Town are spot on.” - Daily Kos
"This rich and subtle tale is infused with insight into love, loss and the power of making the right decisions." - Woman & Home (UK)
"Subversively wise and self-aware." - New Yorker
"Across her oeuvre Patchett has proven herself a generous, meticulous mentor, and Tom Lake is one of this year’s triumphs.” - Chapter 16
"Tom Lake is a book to be savored—the once-in-a-blue-moon type." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Tom Lake is Ann Patchett’s best novel." - Hudson Review
“Meryl Streep…is ideal for narrating Tom Lake…. Streep delivers with her signature whimsy, her cadence lilting from wide-eyed innocence to winking wisdom, blurring the nostalgia for small-town Americana with dashes of big-city dreams." - New York Times Book Review
"Tom Lake…[takes] its time to marvel over the quiet drama of ordinary living: a strong marriage, a loving family, a place to gather at the end of the day.” - Houston Chronicle
"Patchett is a writer of enormous warmth.” - Wall Street Journal
“A quiet and reassuring book . . . highly conscious of . . . [the] human failure to appreciate the little things.”  - New York Times
"Tom Lake is a beautiful, stirring book that sneaks up on you and makes a deep impression, partly because you’re left asking yourself: “What have I just read?” The moment I finished it, I wanted to go back and start again." - Sunday Times (London)
"Patchett celebrates not just the smallest events of our lives, but “small” lives themselves." - Financial Times
"A new Ann Patchett novel is always cause for celebration... and Tom lake could be one of her best." - inews
"A compelling narrative about the secret lives of parents—and how to find happiness in the midst of a long life.” - Time
"Tom Lake is a warm, funny book about kind people who do the best they can." - Minneapolis Star Tribune
  • Ann Patchett’s most recent novel, The Dutch House, was a New York Times bestseller, a Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book, one of Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of the Year, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post; O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29, and Buzzfeed, and has sold over 1.7 million copies across all formats.
  • Having written four works of nonfiction, two children’s books, and now nine novels, Ann Patchett is one of Harper’s most beloved house authors. She is a New York Times bestselling author who has garnered many awards, including Britain’s Orange Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has also been longlisted for the ALA’s Andrew Carnegie Medal in Fiction and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
  • Tom Lake draws readers back to an idyllic summer spent with a community theater company in Northern Michigan. It’s the perfect vacation read—a bittersweet and poignant story of love, family, and memories that beautifully encapsulates the transition from the sultry days of summer to the crisp, golden days of fall.