About the author
Ann Patchett is an American novelist, essayist, and co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville. Her fiction often places families, strangers, artists, and professionals inside circumstances that reveal how obligation accumulates over many years.
Bel Canto won major awards and brought her wide recognition. Commonwealth uses a marriage and blended family across decades, while The Dutch House follows two siblings whose shared grievance becomes the organising story of their adult lives.
Where to start
Start with The Dutch House for a family and its property, Bel Canto for strangers held together in a hostage crisis, or Commonwealth for a wider blended-family chronology.
