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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I am fifty--seven. I am twenty--four. After dinner the girls head out with Hazel, some blankets, and a six--pack of beer.
They have plans to sit in a field far away from their friends and watch The Promised Man just as the last of the fireflies flickering in the tall grass turn out their lights.
The movie is a cause for merriment, not because it’s happy—-in fact, I remember it as soul--crushing—-but because activities unrelated to work are few and far between these days.
Benny will meet them there. On this windless night, the Otts have strung a king--sized sheet between two trees and pulled it taut.
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