Tom Lake

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. This is Ann Patchett’s latest and I have to admit I enjoyed it very much, even while feeling like it was a little too good to be true. Both the present day story and the story of the narrator’s past. In the past, everything goes her way, which can be because that’s the way memory is, but even in the present, the idyllic cherry farm, the three daughters so loving and happy in spite of the pandemic. I guess it’s ok to have a “happy” book for a change, esp. when the writer is as good as Ann Patchett.