Tom Lake

A Novel

De: Ann Patchett

Narrado por: Meryl Streep

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • READ BY MERYL STREEP

“Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.”—The Guardian

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.

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.

Ann's best yet

I absolutely loved this novel! The reading by Meryl Streep is just perfect. It's a story about stories and it's just wonderful.

Thank God For Ann Patchett!

Just the most beautiful book ever! Read to you by Meryl Streep who sounds just like your own precious mother.

Outstanding narration, beautiful story

I downloaded this book having no idea what is was about, only knowing that it was written by one of my favorite authors and performed by one of the world’s best actresses. I loved every minute of it.

Beautiful!

Completely engaging! I usually shy away from audio books with famous actors narrating because I can find it distracting but not with Ms. Streep! Wonderful, beautiful story with a fabulous narrator. I was fully invested in the lives of Lara and her daughters from the very first chapter until the last word. I found myself looking for things to do so I could listen more and ended up breezing thru this in a day and half!

Truly beautiful

Ann Patchett clearly wrote this book for me. I'm happy to share it with everyone.