Tom Lake at Parea Greek Taverna

Please join the Ladies Book & Explorers while we discuss, "Tom Lake" by Ann Patchett at Parea Greek Taverna for authentic Greek cuisine. Expect friendly ladies, laughter, a great discussion and good food.

Parea's address (MeetUp's address is incorrect, Parea is located on Orlando Ave., not Orange Ave, but the event cannot be posted without a location):

##### Parea Greek Taverna: 111 S Orlando Ave | Maitland, FL 32751

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"Tom Lake" by Ann Patchett
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.