AMS Book Club - September

Host: Lourdes V’s home (SW Rochester) or over Zoom for those who prefer, email

sharontjoyce@gmail.com for information and to RSVP.

A Katie Couric Book Club Pick / One of President Obama's '26 Summer Reading List Picks

/ A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick / A GoodReads Most Anticipated Book of Summer

“Ann Patchett’s new novel is a rare phenomenon in contemporary fiction: a novel both

majestic and intimate, original and masterful in its structure, crystalline in its prose,

revelatory in its insights, utterly devastating yet ultimately uplifting in its emotional impact. . .

. I think it is her best novel yet.” —The Boston Globe

The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling writer returns with a moving,

luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power

of connection to defy time.

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, who had been married to her mother for a little more than

year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many years,

not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time

falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and

now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.

Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the

choices that were made for them. 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.