![]() ![]() The dining room ceiling, you describe, is more in keeping with Versailles than eastern Pennsylvania - so that gives you a sense. ![]() It's a mansion, right? There's a ballroom on the third floor. What could have led a mother with two young children to suddenly abandon her family without explanation? And how can those two siblings reckon with that profound loss and maybe find forgiveness years and decades later? Those are questions embedded in the new novel by Ann Patchett titled "The Dutch House." Her many other acclaimed novels include "Bel Canto," "State Of Wonder" and "Commonwealth." And Ann Patchett joins me now from Nashville where she lives.īLOCK: I want to talk about the house itself, the Dutch house built by a Dutch family, the VanHoebeek family from 1922. ![]()
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