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Ann Patchett
Whistler
Literary Fiction · Free kit
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old English teacher Daphne Fuller reunites with Eddie Triplett — the stepfather who vanished from her life when she was nine. What follows is a luminous novel about memory, chosen family, the stories that keep us alive, and the love that can survive decades of misunderstanding.
“It’s a story 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.”
Complete free book club kit
Whistler This or That
Answer in under three seconds. No wrong answers — only revealing ones.
1 / 40
or
Rapid fire (60 seconds)
Read these aloud as fast as the group can shout answers.
- 1. Metropolitan Museum afternoon or Quiet night with advance galleys?
- 2. Upper East Side classroom or Editor’s corner office?
- 3. Snowstorm memory or Sunlit museum steps?
- 4. Nickname from childhood or Clean legal name only?
- 5. Opera with Eddie or Therapy session with Leda energy?
- 6. Keep the dictionary or Throw out the relics?
- 7. Letters after decades or One hard conversation and done?
- 8. Chemo waiting room loyalty or Practical errands in the hallway?
- 9. Horse on the desk or Empty desk, clear mind?
- 10. Reunion tears in public or Save it for the cab ride home?