OPEN A BOOK,OPEN THE WORLD
出版日期：2023.08.16
ISBN：9780063335233
書號：20298258
裝訂：平裝
定價：$630
2020年的春天，新冠疫情肆虐，菈菈的三個女兒為躲避疫情，紛紛回到她們在北密西根的老家農園，一邊幫忙摘櫻桃，她們一邊回憶起過去的家族往事。
菈菈已經很多年沒有和孩子團聚，三個女兒也是，彼此之間都有些隔閡，隨著每天密集的相處，母女之間也逐漸找回親密與情感，三個女兒於是追問起母親年輕時的浪漫故事，一個叫做彼得‧杜克的知名演員，也是菈菈多年以前曾有過一段戀愛的對象，當時他們都在一間叫做Tom Lake的劇院工作。菈菈回憶起遙遠的過去，在人生的悠悠記憶裡爬梳點滴，關於成為女人、母親，以及如何繼續在這個將被永遠改變的世界活下去。
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.
“Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.” —The Guardian
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.
