Book guide
Tom Lake
As three daughters help harvest cherries at the family orchard, their mother recounts a long-guarded youthful romance and reflects on love, marriage, and the hidden lives parents once lived.
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About Tom Lake
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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- Light
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- Slow
Content warnings
- alcohol
- alcoholism
- COVID-19 pandemic
- sexual content
- abortion
- infidelity
- addiction
- drug use
- physical violence
- profanity
