Why a Booktrail?
2000s: A mum tells her daughters the story of her life
Tom Lake
What you need to know before your trail
It’s spring and Lara’s three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they’ve always longed to hear – of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before.
Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.
Travel Guide
Tom Lake
The story of Tom Lake does not have many real settings as it is set on a fictional cherry farm in the north of Michigan.
It’s not even a lake – in the novel Tom Lake is a theatre.
There are several lakes with boys names in the state so some of these are on the map.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Tom Lake
Destination: Michigan Author/guide: Ann Patchett Departure Time: 2000s
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