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NOVEL CONVERSATION

Tom Lake

2025-07-01 18:30:00 2025-07-01 20:00:00 America/New_York NOVEL CONVERSATION Third Floor, Board Room Main Library - Board Room

Tuesday, July 01
6:30pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-07-01 18:30:00 2025-07-01 20:00:00 America/New_York NOVEL CONVERSATION Third Floor, Board Room Main Library - Board Room

Main Library

Board Room

Third Floor, Board Room


Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.

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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For an invitation to the meeting by Zoom, contact:hbolte@fcdlibrary.org

AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Club |

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Our Main Library is located in downtown Lancaster.  This location features a large meeting room, as well as a board room and study room.  Our children's area has an Early Literacy Center, perfect for preschool-aged children.  

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Millersport Kiosk

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Main Library - Gallery

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Main Library - Board Room