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Gladwin Library Main Branch

402 James Robertson Drive Gladwin, MI 48624
Phone: (989) 426-8221
Fax: (989) 426-6958

Beaverton Branch Library

106 Tonkin­ St.
Beaverton, MI 48612
Phone: (989) 435-3981
Fax: (989) 435-2577

Branch Hours

Monday: 9am-7pm
Tues & Wed: 9am-5pm
Thursday: 9am-7pm
Friday: 9am-5pm
Saturday: 9am-1pm
Sunday: CLOSED

REAVERTON Nonah tener Book Club Tom Lake A Navel Ann Patchett Tom Lake By: REESES 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. Join us Thursday, May 8th at 7:00pm