PAUL NEWMAN, Actor: Yes ... but is also near the front lines of today's battles over book bans. ANN PATCHETT: Things aren't great in Tennessee. The people who are banning books don't care about ...

That's the story told in “Tom Lake,” the latest novel by renowned writer Ann Patchett ... seen here in a 2003 production starring Paul Newman. It's a deceptively simple portrait of the ...

It's a wholesome book about the different directions a life can take and of children seeing their parents in a new light.

Patchett’s blurb for Catherine Newman’s“Sandwich” also ended ... Which is the best we can hope for until we get a brand new book by Ann Patchett.

Newman’s last novel, the very moving “We All Want Impossible Things,” was a paean to friendship. Her new book practically glows ... has much in common with Ann Patchett’s “Tom Lake ...