Save the date! Ann Patchett joins the Vancouver Writers Fest on Monday, July 13, 2026. Tickets will be released this spring (date TBA). Make sure to subscribe to our free mailing list to be the first to know when tickets go on sale. You can sign up for infrequent event updates only, or consider signing up for our excellent weekly newsletter to receive regular literary news and hand-picked cultural events.
The award-winning and bestselling author of Tom Lake, Bel Canto, and The Dutch House, Ann Patchett joins us in Vancouver for one night only with her anticipated new novel, Whistler.
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. 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. 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.
Whistler will be available from HarperCollins Canada on June 2, and books will be for sale at the event from Upstart & Crow. Tickets for this event will be released this spring (date TBA). Subscribe to our mailing list so you don’t miss the announcement!
Ann Patchett
ANN PATCHETT is the author of novels, most recently the #1 New York Times bestselling Tom Lake, works of nonfiction, and children’s books. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the PEN/Faulkner, the Women’s Prize for Fiction in the UK, and the Book Sense Book of the Year. Her novel The Dutch House was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages, and Time magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. President Biden awarded her the National Humanities Medal in recognition of her contributions to American culture. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is the owner of Parnassus Books.