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Lives can pivot in the flash of a second. Paths cross to diverge to reconnect years ago. The people we truly love never really leave us. These are the premises behind Ann Patchett’s newest novel, Whistler (2026). Death, life, family, and love are the stuff of humanity; they are also fundamental themes in Patchett’s novel.
Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake (2023) is a slight novel (page count just over 300) that explores storytelling and story-receiving, innocence and experience, memory and truth. Set during the long, slow days of pandemic lockdown, Tom Lake follows a mother unwinding the tale of her youth to her now young adult daughters.
