#whistler

[eopederson2]

View toward Fitzsimmons Glacier from Musical Bumps Trail, Whistler, British Columbia, 1995.

[kammartinez]

I Keep Falling for Ann Patchett’s Slightly Maudlin Novels

Her latest, Whistler, is full of unusually decent people. But it still made me tear up.

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[eopederson2]

Singing Pass, Whistler, British Columbia, 1995.

[dk-thrive]

“The further along we get, the more it feels like some sort of immersive therapy project. I wonder what Leda would think about that—put two siblings in their childhood home and let them go through every single object in the house, see what comes up.” “So what came up?” “Memory, loss, love, anger, all the usual suspects. Sometimes I’d have to go in the other room and stand there with my eyes closed for a minute because I couldn’t look at anything else. Every teacup comes with a short documentary film.

— Ann Patchett, Whistler (Harper, June 2, 2026)

[dk-thrive]

People have no understanding of how love works... They don’t take gratitude into account. They don’t think about relief.

— Ann Patchett, Whistler (Harper, June 2, 2026)

[kamreadsandrecs]

Ann Patchett Has Already Determined the 'Best' Book Coming Out in 2026

It’s not her latest novel, Whistler. That should tell you something about the author herself.

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[dk-thrive]

How was it that a weekday trip...had plunged me back into childhood at the age of fifty-three? I knew what Leda would say. She would say it was because childhood never leaves us. We seal the room up and cover it in sheetrock. We dry and sand and paint, but the pocket of history remains, and sooner or later someone always winds up tapping on the wall, commenting on the way it sounds strangely hollow in there, and then the whole thing comes tumbling down.

— Ann Patchett, Whistler (Harper, June 2, 2026)

[eagans]

Ann Patchett, Whistler