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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

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Jan 11, 2024 Celia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: vero-book-club, kindle-list, 2023-pub, 2024-read, ten-year-challenge, 2024-kindle-counted, historical-fiction-read, 52-2024

I have read 5 books by Ann Patchett, three rated 5 stars, 2 rated 4 stars. This offering is worth my five-star rating.

Did my mother have a life before she married my father, ask Emily, Maisie and Nell Brown. The answer is a resounding YES.

Lara Brown is married to Joe Brown and they manage a cherry farm near Traverse City Michigan. They have three daughters who are in their twenties and are visiting the farm. A man named Peter Duke has recently died. Peter Duke who is known as a talented actor. ...more

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Oct 30, 2024 Book Concierge rated it it was amazing

Shelves: michigan, audio, theater, book-club, family, literary-fiction, concierge, strong-women, library, love

Book on CD performed by Meryl Streep

This is a character-driven story set during the COVID pandemic. Lara and Tom Nelson live on a Michigan fruit orchard where they’ve raised three daughters. In the Spring of 2020 the girls all come home to the farm to live together once again. As they work together to harvest the cherry crop (no farm workers available during lock-down), the girls persuade their mother to tell about her youth, when she was an actress in summer stock and dated a man who would bec ...more

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Jun 03, 2024 Lory Sakay rated it really liked it

This book was a different take on the time we all spent in quarantine with our families. We're all aware and have read of the devastation, death, conflict, and struggles associated with this very unusual time in our lives but rarely do we hear about the moments of bonding and reflection forced quarantine created. Lara shares her coming of age with her three daughters as they hunker down together on their family cherry farm during the pandemic. The characters, the personalities, the banter...Ann ...more

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Feb 17, 2024 Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Jenn Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Schu rated it liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction

At the height of Covid, Lara's three daughters return to their family's orchard for the annual picking. While visiting with their 50-something-year-old mother, the daughters ask their mother to regale them with stories of her past. Before owning an orchard, Lara was a stage actress with the Tom Lake theatre group. Lara has told this story to her daughters numerous times, but since there is not much to do while picking cherries, she decides to tell her story again. What makes Lara's story particu ...more

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