About the Book: Tom Lake
Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature
Guardian In the spring of 2020, Laras three daughters return to the familys
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