Jul 31, 2023 · In “Tom Lake,” Patchett’s ninth and newest novel (Harper), members of a summer theatre troupe in rural Michigan in the nineteen-eighties coalesce into something like an incestuous family. They...

Sep 13, 2023 · Ann Patchett on new ‘Tom Lake’: ‘We experience love in different ways at different times in life’ The lauded author's 'pandemic novel' sequesters a family on a farm in Traverse City, MI—and was written on a treadmill

Aug 30, 2023 · Ann Patchett’s “Tom Lake” may very well be the first pandemic novel that anyone actually likes. Set among the cherry trees of northern Michigan in the summer of 2020, narrator and protagonist...

Aug 17, 2023 · Amid the pandemic, a woman tells her three now-grown daughters a story of her youth, a love affair, a path she might have taken but didn’t. While they, in turn, tell her of their hopes and fears...

Sep 11, 2023 · In her new novel, Tom Lake (Harper, 2023), not a single moment feels less than absolutely authentic. In Tom Lake Patchett builds on Thornton Wilder ’s great 1938 play Our Town, and the inspiration feels exactly right, given the plain-spoken elegance that is a shared element of their two styles.

Aug 24, 2023 · Tom Lake is made up of two narratives. One unfolds in spring 2020 and centers on 57-year-old Lara and her family on their cherry farm in northern Michigan. The other is Lara’s account of her...

Apr 3, 2024 · When I read Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake last summer, I knew we were in for a revival of Thorton Wilder’s classic play Our Town, because Tom Lake is about one woman’s experience playing Emily Webb in two productions of Our Town, and how it changed her life.

Aug 4, 2023 · Tom Lake, the latest novel by Ann Patchett, looks at how stories can shape—and shift—our relationships. The setup will be relatable to many: A family gathers during spring 2020 to ride out the worst of the pandemic together.

Jul 29, 2023 · Tom Lake tells the story of Lara, a small-town girl who made it big in Hollywood. Sort of. She could have done, after successfully starring in one film and impressing executives in the...

Aug 1, 2023 · Tom Lake by Ann Patchett is a Woman's Story Within a Family Story! This is Lara's story of a summer long ago spent in summer stock theater at Tom Lake where, in her early twenties, she fell in love with an extremely handsome fellow actor named Peter Duke.

May 6, 2024 · Tom Lake is a gentle read, sharing the joy and extraordinary in the ordinary of being together on a family cherry farm in Michigan. The novel is story telling at its best, reminding the reader that everyone has a story to share, as ordinary as their life may seem.

Aug 10, 2023 · Lara’s story and how she tells it are the matter of Ann Patchett’s enveloping new novel, “Tom Lake.” This is Patchett’s ninth novel, after such acclaimed bestsellers as “Bel Canto” and “The...

Feb 8, 2024 · Every detail of this novel—Lara’s fancy bathing suit purchased by an assistant in Los Angeles for a swimming screen test; the long dancer legs of Pallace, Lara’s friend and foil at Tom Lake; the drunken but dear man who plays the Stage Manager; the blue linen napkins Lara buys when she and Duke and Pallace visit Joe’s Aunt Maisie; the ...

Aug 1, 2023 · ‘Tom Lake’ Finds Ann Patchett in a Chekhovian Mood. This time the celebrated novelist spins the cozy tale of a former actress, her three daughters and their rueful memories. There’s a cherry orchard, too. By Alexandra Jacobs for The New York Times

Aug 3, 2023 · Ann Patchett’s “Tom Lake,” her first novel since 2019′s “The Dutch House,” is a gorgeously told and quietly devastating story of family, love, and identity.

Jul 2, 2024 · Now, she has given us the novel “Tom Lake.” Its present-day action takes place over the course of a few days early on in the pandemic when three young adult daughters are helping with the...

Dec 4, 2023 · Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett December 04, 2023 by Marguerite Rauch in Book Reviews Lara and Joe Nelson own a cherry orchard in Michigan, and have their three twenty-something daughters staying with them during the first year of the pandemic.

Aug 1, 2023 · TOM LAKE. by Ann Patchett ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 1, 2023. Poignant and reflective, cementing Patchett’s stature as one of our finest novelists.

Mar 27, 2024 · Book review, full book summary and synopsis for Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, an understated novel about falling in love, family and the choices we make. In Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, Lara recounts a story to her daughters about a brief romance she once shared with a handsome, famous actor, Peter Duke.

Oct 27, 2024 · Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake is an ode to the play Our Town, Michigan, and past lives. In the spring of 2020, Lara and her husband need help on their farm since all the workers have gone home, so they recruit their daughters to help pick the cherries.