Tom Lake is a novel about a mother, Lara, who, while picking cherries with her three adult daughters on their family orchard during the COVID-19 pandemic, recounts the story of a whirlwind summer romance and stage performance she once shared with a man who became a famous film star, Peter Duke. The story is a meditation on youthful love, married life, and the paths not taken.
There’s more to every love story than what we choose to tell…
The novel is structured around two timeframes:
The Present (Spring 2020)
The Past (1980s)
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.
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