An Evening with Ann Patchett and "Tom Lake"

Join award-winning novel Ann Patchett in conversation with Erin Whiting about Tom Lake, her eagerly-awaited new novel set in Northern Michigan. The novel probes many aspects of love-from youthful passion to the contentment of marriage to the welcome embrace of family when the outside world falls apart.
As three sisters shelter on a family cherry farm in Traverse City during the pandemic, they urge their mother to share details of an early romance with a now-famous actor in the fictional town of Tom Lake. So begins the at-once hopeful and reflective narrative that unspools in many directions, weaving a tapestry of past and present.