It's been three years since beloved and lauded American writer Ann Patchett released a novel. Following the wildly popular Tom Lake, her latest novel was released in the first days of June, 2026. Whistler is already being lauded as "perfect" and "absorbing," with fans on Goodreads saying it grips them even from the first few pages.
It's already feeling safe to say Patchett has another hit on her hands.
While at time of publication it's too soon for Parade to report on bestseller lists, Whistler is already being called by some, like the Boston Globe, "Patchett's best novel to date."
View this post on InstagramWhistler follows 53-year-old Daphne Fuller, an English teacher at a private girls' school, who unexpectedly reunites with her former stepfather, Eddie Triplett, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Although only in each other's lives for a brief moment, the rekindling leads them to reexamine their transformative relationship from Daphne's childhood, as well as unpack all of the things behind a terrible and harrowing car accident she experienced at the age of nine.
Patchett originally conceived the novel as something entirely different, and worked on it for more than a year before scrapping that version. Similar to Tom Lake, she wrote the bulk of the novel while on a walking treadmill, a habit she picked up to combat her neck and wrist pain from sitting at a desk too much. Despite some similarities between herself and the main character, Daphne, Patchett insists it is not a self-insert and she was simply "following the right story."
Publishers Weekly called her 11th novel "perfectly executed and quietly profound" and The Observerwrote it's "an absorbing new novel [with] a quietly unfolding story of family secrets and fragile loyalties."
Whistler is out now and available wherever books are sold.
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