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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There are always four or five days when picking the last of the sweet cherries overlaps with the start of shaking the tart cherries, when things get so busy you can’t find your own hand.
The crew we have kept our distance from this summer, the crew who has kept their distance from us, comes closer as we bring out the giant mechanical shaker.
Together we unspool the tarps beneath the tree and then attach the shaker.
Ten violent seconds later all the cherries are on the ground.
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