Ann Patchett in Conversation

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Ann Patchett in Conversation July 13 at 7:30 PM at the Vancouver Playhouse Celebrated and multi-award-winning author Ann Patchett makes a rare appearance in Vancouver on the North American tour for Whistler, her first novel since the instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Tom Lake. Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. 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. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. While their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both—and no