DATE: Wednesday, September 25, 2019
TIME: 9:30am – 11:30am*
LOCATION: Congregation Keneseth Israel, Elkins Park, PA**
Reading & Conversation with Author Ann Patchett
Join us and meet author Ann Patchett as she presents her new novel, The Dutch House!
Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish folly in small-town Pennsylvania (Elkins Park!) taken on by his property developer father. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her delicacy, her brilliance. Life is comfortable and coherent, played out under the watchful eyes of the house’s former owners in the frames of their oil paintings, or under the cover of the draperies around the window seat in Maeve’s room.Then one day their father brings Andrea home: Andrea, small and neat, a dark hat no bigger than a saucer pinned over a twist of her fair hair. Though they cannot know it, Andrea’s advent to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve’s lives. Her arrival will exact a banishment: a banishment whose reverberations will echo for the rest of their lives.For all that the world is open to him, for all that he can accumulate, for all that life is full, Danny and his sister are drawn back time and again to the place they can never enter, knocking in vain on the locked door of the past. For behind the mystery of their own enforced exile is that of their mother’s self-imposed one: an absence more powerful than any presence they have known.Told with Ann Patchett’s inimitable blend of wit and heartbreak, The Dutch House is a story of family, betrayal, love, responsibility and sacrifice; of the powerful bonds of place and time that magnetize and repel us for our whole lives, and the lives of those who survive us. TICKETS REQUIRED. YOUR TICKET INCLUDES ADMISSION AND A SIGNED COPY OF THE BOOK. THE AUTHOR WILL PERSONALIZE BOOKS AT THE EVENT AND EXTRA BOOKS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE, INCLUDING ALL OF ANN PATCHETT’S TITLES.
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*AGENDA
9:30am – 10:00am – arrive, check in, and find your seat.
10:00am – 11:00am – reading, discussion, Q&A with Ann Patchett
11:00am – 11:30am – book signing
**Keneseth Israel is located in Elkins Park at 8339 Old York, Rd., at the corner of Old York Rd. & Township Line Rd. The front entrance is located on the non-street side of the building, where you will find ample free parking. All are welcome at KI!