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Adult Book Discussion

Wed, Oct 30

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Howard City

Adult Book Discussion
Adult Book Discussion

Time & Location

Oct 30, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Howard City, 117 W Williams St, Howard City, MI 49329, USA

About the Event

Join us for an Adult Book Discussion on Wednesday, Oct. 30 from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Reading Room in the Timothy C. Hauenstein Reynolds Township Library.

About the Author

Ann Patchett is the author of six novels, including Bel Canto, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction. She writes for the New York Times Magazine, Elle, GQ, the Financial Times, the Paris Review and Vogue. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

About the Book

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's 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 past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.

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