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Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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[dk-thrive]

For so many years I have kissed him. For so many years I have not kissed another soul, and there is a deep and abiding comfort in this.

— Ann Patchett, Tom Lake: A Novel (Harper, August 1, 2023)

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[kayteeaay]

There is no explaining the simple truth about life: you will forget much of it. The painful things you were certain you’d never be able to let go? Now you’re not entirely sure when they happened, while the thrilling parts, the heart-stopping joys, splintered and scattered and become something else. Memories are then replaced by different joys and larger sorrows, and unbelievably, those things get knocked aside as well, until one morning you’re picking cherries with your three grown daughters and your husband goes by on the Gator and you are positive that this is all you’ve ever wanted in the world.

– Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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“Veronica had such a small part in the story and still, I loved her more than everyone at Tom Lake put together. She stayed with me after the rest of them had faded, maybe because we remember the people we hurt so much more clearly than the people who hurt us.”

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[andreabadgley]

There is no explaining this simple truth about life: you will forget much of it.

- Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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– Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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[jennamacaroni]

Emily has never been able to sit on furniture like a normal person. I lost that fight when she was still a child. Whoever installed her interior compass put the magnet in upside down.

Ann Patchett, "Tom Lake"

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[beautsentences]

"Not knowing if you’re going to die really makes you present. That’s a big wake-up. Of course, that’s all Our Town too. When Emily dies and then she goes back for her 12th birthday, and she is so intensely present that it’s unbearable. That’s what death and uncertainty does. If you’re with somebody when they’re dying or they’re very ill, all of your priorities are completely straight. You know exactly what you’re supposed to do. You know exactly what matters and what doesn’t. Whereas if you’re just clicking along in life and things are more or less fine, you’re thinking about all the emails you’ve got to answer. Our priorities are completely skewed. I think that the presence of the pandemic heightens the awareness of the present moment in life. “Look how beautiful these trees are. Look how beautiful these girls are. I don’t want it to end.”

Ann Patchett

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[fitzgeraldo-s]

”Good marriages are never as interesting as bad affairs.”

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[dk-thrive]

Secrets are at times a necessary tool for peace.

— Ann Patchett, Tom Lake: A Novel (Harper, August 1, 2023)

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Ann Patchett || Tom Lake

In Tom Lake Lara and her family sit out the pandemic on their cherry farm. A bittersweet situation. Lara and Tom rejoice in having their daughters Emily, Maisy and Nell close, the daughters themselves are keenly aware of the fact that their lives have temporarily come to a standstill. Having their mother relate her affaire with a famous actor is one way of spending time and coming to terms with…

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Review of Ann Patchett's Tom Lake

I don’t want to say I didn’t enjoy reading Tom Lake, but I didn’t. And it’s not that I hated the book. I just hated reading it. I think I understand Patchett’s plot-technique, her repetitive layering of memories, underscoring her homage to OUR TOWN and the idea that life is a cycle that repeats and repeats and repeats.  Tom Lake is heavily indebted to Thornton Wilder’s classic, OUR TOWN, which…

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[fizzreads]

It’s silly, because I loved the two Ann Patchett novels I’ve previously read, but I took this book out from the library three whole times before I finished it. I only finished it tonight because there were just seven hours left before it was due back on Libby. It’s silly, because it’s a great book and I loved it.

It’s about a couple and their three grown daughters on their Michigan cherry farm during the pandemic. It’s also about a summer stock production in Tom Lake, Michigan, over 30 years earlier, and the mother’s romance with an actor who went on to be very famous. You learn details about these people slowly and deliberately. It’s a beautiful book.

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[literaryvice]

Tom Lake: A book to bury your nights

Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake sucked me up and spat me out a few days later. The sort of book you don’t notice you’re reading until hours later and you have turned prune in the tub or the clock is – traitorously – telling you its well past your very last possible bedtime. Which is strange because it’s not a book that’s “about” very much. Which is to say it isn’t very plot-y. It is instead a book about…

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[jennamacaroni]

The lettuce and tomato plants and zinnias are already straightening up from the beating they've taken. Those tiny periwinkle butterflies are working their rounds. Where do the periwinkles go in rain like that? It's not that I'm unaware of the suffering and soon-to-be-more suffering in the world, it's that I know the suffering exists beside wet grass and a bright blue sky recently scrubbed by rain. The beauty and the suffering are equally true.

Ann Patchett, "Tom Lake"

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