![]() ![]() The book retraces Patchett’s life from several perspectives - daughter, friend, and wife author, bookseller, and advocate for books. We meet the author’s mother and three fathers - yes, three fathers, as the essay is so named her childhood best friend, Tavia her husband Karl, a physician, pilot, rainmaker, and mensch plus, an array of influential teachers and authors. ![]() If the book began as a meditation on love and mortality, it bloomed into a memoir that ranges far and wide. “That essay was so important to me that I wanted to build a solid shelter for it,” Patchett explains. ![]() She had written a piece on an unexpected late-life friendship that had taken her by storm. In the introduction to her radiant essay collection, These Precious Days, Ann Patchett describes the book’s genesis. ![]()
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