PS! Book Club: Whistler-Ann Patchett

Join the PS! Book Club virtually on October 19th at 7:00 p.m. when we discuss Ann Patchett's new novel, Whistler, a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them.

Daphne Fuller encounters Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Eddie was married to her mother for only a year 44 years before when Daphne was 9 years old. Their time together had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.

It’s a story about bravery, memory, the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives, and the endless stream of loss that in time comes for us all. Beautiful in its simplicity, it is ultimately about how love endures, and how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.

304 pages, Paperback genre

First published: June 2026

Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963, in Los Angeles) is an award‑winning American novelist and essayist best known for Bel Canto (2001), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction. She grew up in Nashville, co‑founded Parnassus Books in 2011, and has written major novels including The Patron Saint of Liars, Commonwealth, The Dutch House, and Tom Lake.