Tom Lake (Reese’s Book Club Pick)
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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In this summer which can at times be mistaken for the end of the world, we are the ones who pick the fruit and send the fruit to the processor and tie up the branches and take the goats out to eat the weeds.
We work from the moment we wake until we close our eyes at night.
Sometimes one of us says something about how it would be fun to watch a movie but it never happens.
We fall asleep with books in our hands. I fall asleep with a threaded needle in my hand, sewing face masks out of pillowcases.
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