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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“Daddy would have taken you to the hospital,” Nell says that night at dinner. She will not let this new turn go.
“Daddy would most certainly have taken you to the hospital,” Joe says.
He is tired. He is grateful for the deviled eggs and green beans and the whitefish.
Every year since we first came to the farm he’s wondered how we’ll get the cherries off the trees in time, and now it seems all of his previous fears were in preparation for this year when we’re down dozens of picking crew, which of course means we’ll be down dozens to shake the tarts off the trees in a few weeks.
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