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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Wondrous god, I had the presence of mind to stick a chicken in the Crock--Pot with some onions and carrots this morning, and the kitchen garden needs only to be picked, rinsed and reassembled in order to have salad.

Emily has made bread and pie and after a day of work, bread and pie are really all we want.

We scrub our hands up to the elbows and throw water on our faces to dilute the paste of sweat and sunscreen and bug spray.

Sometimes we will deem ourselves too disgusting to sit at the table and so we run up for a quick shower, forgetting we can’t stay awake after a shower, we can’t go back downstairs to eat.