PATCHETT: Well, I know it was true for so many of my friends that they were saying, oh, the pandemic. Why put that mother-daughter relationship at the center of your story? And Lara, the mom and your narrator, she is loving having her three 20-something daughters back home. KELLY: So this book, your book, unfolds during that surreal summer of 2020 when so many grown-up kids were moving back home, moving back into their childhood bedrooms. The book is titled "Tom Lake." And Ann Patchett, I am so glad to speak with you again.ĪNN PATCHETT: I am so glad to speak with you, Mary Louise. Well, Patchett's new novel is about a woman named Lara who is many things but, at the core, a mother. Part of not wanting children, she goes on, has always been the certainty that I didn't have the energy for it, and so I had to make a choice - the choice between children and writing. I have just enough energy to write, Patchett says, keep up with the house, be a decent friend, a decent daughter and sister and wife. And being a writer, she has written about her reasons. The writer Ann Patchett does not have children.
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