Patchett's new novel, in which a mother tells her daughters about her early romance with a famous actor, is a gentle but revealing meditation on lost love and destiny In This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, an essay from 2011 in which she considers the vicissitudes of contentment, Ann Patchett writes that children have "a real failure of imagination when it comes to thinking of the adults in their lives as having done anything of interest, anything at all, in the time known as before". Such a ...
Patchett's new novel, in which a mother tells her daughters about her early romance with a famous actor, is a gentle but revealing meditation on lost love and destiny In This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, an essay from 2011 in which she considers the vicissitudes of contentment, Ann Patchett writes that children have "a real failure of imagination when it comes to thinking of the adults in their lives as having done anything of interest, anything at all, in the time known as before". Such a ...
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