“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute?” The question, posed in the final act of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” by 25-year-old Emily Webb Gibbs, who has recently ...
Reading “Tom Lake,” I kept thinking about a lie we readers tell ourselves: “I never wanted it to end.” I loved Ann Patchett’s novel, in which a Michigan cherry farmer tells her daughters about her ...
But not all of that first chapter, or indeed the whole novel, plays out in the past. Tom Lake is made up of two narratives. One unfolds in spring 2020 and centers on 57-year-old Lara and her family on ...
“Tom Lake,” the new novel from Ann Patchett, comes with the same touches of magic as her preceding novels. The most recent is “The Dutch House,” ultimately to become a finalist for 2019’s Pulitzer ...
This time the celebrated novelist spins the cozy tale of a former actress, her three daughters and their rueful memories. There’s a cherry orchard, too. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an ...
Ann Patchett’s “Tom Lake” may very well be the first pandemic novel that anyone actually likes. Set among the cherry trees of northern Michigan in the summer of 2020, narrator and protagonist Lara ...
The actor narrates Ann Patchett’s sentimental new novel, “Tom Lake,” about a Midwestern family. Credit...Maria Robledo/Trunk Archive Supported by By Jane Hu When you purchase an independently reviewed ...
When the author Ann Patchett was five years old, her family broke apart. Her mother divorced her father, married the man with whom she’d been having an affair, and moved Patchett and her sister from ...
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