Beth Am Women's Circle Book group meets once a month in person. It’s not necessary to come every time, we are very flexible .  We welcome anyone who enjoys reading great books, and we always have a lively discussion! The group meets at a different home each month. To RSVP or find out more, please contact Hillary Liber or Rona Dosick.

Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
Published: August 2023 | Pages: 320
Facilitator: Hillary Liber
Hostess: Carole Ross (Carmel Valley)

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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