Conversations with Authors - Ann Patchett (Virtual Event)
Sunday, July 12th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT
Ann Patchett
Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author.
Dear Friends of Book Passage,
I'm thrilled that you were able to join me and my dear pal Elaine for this event. Thank you for continuing to support your local independent bookstore. You're lucky to have one of the very best, and I can say that because I've seen them all.
Some of my favorite books that have come out this year are:
- The Resisters by Gish Jen
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
- Writers & Lovers by Lily King
- The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayetu Moore
Two great anti-racist books you might have missed:
- White Rage by Carol Anderson
- Black Is the Body by Emily Bernard
Why not read some poetry while you're at it:
Read middle grade fiction even if you're an adult:
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and The Magician's Elephant both by Kate DiCamillo
The book that will change your life once it's published in September:
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Please stay safe, keep reading, and keep shopping local.
Love and thanks,
—Ann Patchett
Below, please find links to purchase Ann's books.
"The Resisters is palpably loving, smart, funny, and desperately unsettling. The novel should be required reading for the country both as a cautionary tale and because it is a stone-cold masterpiece. This is Gish Jen's moment. She has pitched a perfect game." --Ann Patchett
New York Times Bestseller
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year.
Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman.
An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016
A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016
“Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.”
The first new selection of O’Hara’s work to come along in several decades. In this “marvellous compilation” (The New Yorker), editor Mark Ford reacquaints us with one of the most joyous and innovative poets of the postwar period.
A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America’s beloved storyteller.
A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America's beloved storyteller
Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
In 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett launched her remarkable career with the publication of her debut novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, a best-selling book that is “beautifully written . . . a first novel that second- and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion” (Boston Herald).
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$16.99ISBN: 9780547521893Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Mariner Books - April 19th, 2011Best-selling novelist Ann Patchett’s second, "strikingly original"* novel tells the moving story of John Nickel, an ex–jazz musician who wanted nothing more than to be a good father. When his lover takes away his son, he’s left only with his Beale Street bar.$15.99ISBN: 9780156006217Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harvest Books - September 17th, 2004"A secretive magician's death becomes the catalyst for his partner's journey self-discovery in this enchanting book ("San Francisco Chronicle") " that is something of a magic trick in itself (Newsweek)." When Parsifal, a handsome and charming magician, dies suddenly, his widow Sabine who was also his faithful assistant for twenty years learns that the family he claimed to have lost in a tragic acc
$16.99ISBN: 9780060838720Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - August 2nd, 2005Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe.
“Blissfully Romantic….A strange, terrific, spellcasting story.” — San Francisco Chronicle
$16.99ISBN: 9780061340642Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - July 29th, 2008"Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family." -- Washington Post
$16.99ISBN: 9780062049810Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - May 8th, 2012"Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett's fiction."—New York Times Book Review
$16.99ISBN: 9780062491831Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - May 2nd, 2017“Exquisite... Commonwealth is impossible to put down.”
— New York TimesISBN: 9780618543519Availability: Special OrderPublished: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - October 1st, 2006“While a single short story may have a difficult time raising enough noise on its own to be heard over the din of civilization, short stories in bulk can have the effect of swarming bees, blocking out sound and sun and becoming the only thing you can think about,” writes Ann Patchett in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2006.
$15.99ISBN: 9780060572150Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - April 5th, 2005"A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can’t distinguish burden from embrace.” --People
New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett’s first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.
$14.99ISBN: 9780061340659Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper - April 15th, 2008Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestselling author Ann Patchett offers hope and inspiration for anyone at a crossroads, whether graduating, changing careers, or transitioning from one life stage to another.
$16.99ISBN: 9780062236685Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - October 7th, 2014Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage.
$18.99ISBN: 9780062883384Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: HarperCollins - May 7th, 2019From the international bestselling author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth, Ann Patchett, and the bestselling illustrator of the Fancy Nancy series, Robin Preiss Glasser, comes a hilarious children’s story about a slide made just for lambs.
