Author
Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett writes literary fiction and contemporary. We've read and reviewed 2 of Ann Patchett's books, including Whistler and The Dutch House, each scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
Whistler
by Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett's Whistler opens on two people who shared a single strange year decades ago and place each other again, much older now, across a crowded gallery at the Met. It's a hushed, deeply felt novel about memory and the small choices that quietly turn out to be the large ones. Best for readers who live for character-driven literary fiction.
The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett's The Dutch House follows Danny and Maeve Conroy across five decades after their stepmother locks them out of the glass-fronted Philadelphia mansion their father bought furnished. A slow, exact family novel about inheritance, abandonment, and a brother and sister who cannot stop returning to the scene of it.