Tom Lake

Tom Lake is a 2023 novel by Ann Patchett. It was published by Harper on August 1, 2023. Premise Three daughters, who return to their family's Northern Michigan orchard in the spring of 2020, learn about their mother's relationship with famous actor Peter Duke, who she shared the stage with at a theatre company named Tom Lake. Reception The novel debuted at number one on The New York Times fiction best-seller list for the week ending August 5, 2023. On the review aggregator website Book Marks, which assigns individual ratings to book reviews from mainstream literary critics, the novel received a cumulative "rave" rating based on 21 reviews: 16 "rave" reviews, 4 "positive" reviews, and 1 "mixed" review.