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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We do not stop for snow in northern Michigan.

Schools open, buses run. Knuckling under to snow means condemning yourself to an uneducated populace.

Joe gets up early to drive the tractor with the blower attachment down the rutted drive while I shovel the steps.

All those years I pulled the girls out of their beds one at a time and rushed them to the warm kitchen to begin their layering, red tights beneath pink long underwear.