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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A cool breeze stirs the trees and brushes off the rain left clinging to cherries and leaves. The orchard is glistening, and I am done. I’ve laid out the entire summer at Tom Lake with bonus tracks on either side. I’ve given my girls the director’s cut.
Nell shifts her feet in the wet grass. “You don’t ever think you made a mistake?” she asks.
“Oh, come on. All that and you still think I should’ve been an actress?”
“I think being an actress sounds like a nightmare,” Emily says.
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