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Tom Lake

by Ann Patchett

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Our Town

Play · 1938

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Ann Patchett built the novel around Our Town: Lara met her old love while playing Emily in a summer-stock production, and Wilder's play about ordinary life and loss shapes the story she tells her daughters.

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Tom Lake

The book relates the story of three daughters who yearn to know about their mother's youthful relationship with a famous actor. Upon its release, the book was met with mostly positive reviews from book critics, who praised it as the author's prime material.

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