{"product_id":"tom-lake-9780063359567b","title":"Tom Lake","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eIn this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself to be one of America's finest writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn 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 their relationship with their mother, and are forced to reframe their understanding of the world they thought they knew.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTom Lake\u003c\/span\u003e is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives our parents led before they were our parents. both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all 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 acuity, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most acclaimed literary talents at work today.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42817938849872,"sku":"9780063359567B","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780063359567-l.jpg?v=1785866990","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/tom-lake-9780063359567b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}