Tom Lake (Reese’s Book Club Pick)

Tom Lake (Reese’s Book Club Pick)

Author: Ann Patchett Listening Length: 11h 22m
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In the spring of 2020, Lara’s 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 pas...

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Hazel’s yellow head pops up in the tall grass.

She’s come back to wait for Maisie but when she sees me she decides I am enough.

Together we take the dirt road past the wall of hemlocks and white pines to the barn.

The cherry trees are so burdened that I don’t know how we’ll get the fruit picked before it rots.