Ann Patchett - Whistler: A Novel
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Plymouth Congregational Church 1919 LaSalle Ave Minneapolis, MN 55403 Ann Patchett shares from and talks about her new novel, Whistler. In conversation with Kate DiCamillo. Ann Patchett returns with a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time. When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again. Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over t
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- Ann PatchettAuthor
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