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Tom Lake: A Novel Audiobook
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • READ BY MERYL STREEP
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.
“Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.” —The Guardian
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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"Great book, well written. Fully developed characters when needed. I did not anticipate the ending which made the story circle complete. This is a heart warming book that when I was not engaged with the audio book, made me reflect back on some of my past also. Round this all out with Meryl Streep reading the book and simple acting of the parts made it a 10 for me."
— BB (5 out of 5 stars)
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“A must-listen…Streep narrates with breathtaking sensitivity…Instead of character voices, she delivers realism, shifting rhythm and tone to reveal personalities…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“Meryl Streep…is ideal for narrating Tom Lake…Streep delivers with her signature whimsy, her cadence lilting from wide-eyed innocence to winking wisdom.”
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“Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.”
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“A tender, absorbing tale about becoming who we are.”
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“Tom Lake is about romantic love, marital love, and maternal love but also the love of animals, the love of stories, love of the land and trees and the tiny, red, cordiform object that is a cherry.”
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“A swoony, luminous reminder about the endurance of love and happiness in a broken world.”
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“Patchett expertly handles her layered plot, embedding one charming revelation and one brutal betrayal into a dual narrative that deftly maintains readers’ interest.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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A #1 Audible.com bestseller in Fiction
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A Reese’s Book Club Pick
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A Barnes & Noble bestseller
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A #1 Amazon bestseller
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A #1 New York Times bestseller
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A USA Today Bestseller
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A #1 New York Times Bestseller in Audio
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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An AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year
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Finalist for the Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year
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Winner of the Audie Award for Best Fiction Narration
Tom Lake Listener Reviews
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Nancy Roscoe, 7/9/2024
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Gabriele Peters, 4/13/2024
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MJ, 1/20/2024
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" This was not Pachett best it took more than halfway into the book where you were able to realize the where the story was taken the reader "
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Patty Rooney, 11/28/2023
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Gail Miller, 11/26/2023
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Michelle Meier, 11/8/2023
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About Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett is the author of #1 New York Times bestselling novels, works of nonfiction, and children’s books. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the PEN/Faulkner, the Women’s Prize in the United Kingdom, and the Book Sense Book of the Year. Her novel The Dutch House was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Time magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. President Biden awarded her the National Humanities Medal in recognition of her contributions to American culture. Visit her at annpatchett.com
About Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep, considered by many movie reviewers to be the greatest living film actress, has been nominated for an Academy Award an astonishing sixteen times and has won it three times. She has also garnered two Emmy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and six Drama Desk Awards. In 2004, she was awarded the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also an Audie Award and Grammy Award–winning narrator.