**PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PURCHASING TICKETS**
 
NOTE: THERE ARE NO PHYSICAL TICKETS FOR OUR EVENTS. YOU WILL BE ADDED TO THE GUEST LIST. BOOK BOXES WILL BE DELIVERED OR AVAILABLE FOR PICKUP BETWEEN JULY 1ST AND 3RD. YOU WILL RECEIVE A CONFIRMATION EMAIL. TICKETS FOR EVENTS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE.**
 
*Tickets are limited for this intimate event. 
 
 
Our Book Club in collaboration with The Bruce Hotel. 
 
We’ve partnered up with The Bruce Hotel to host monthly gatherings in their lobby. At the start of each month we’ll deliver to your door the Book of the Month, a little treat or gift, and a voucher for a glass of wine (or other beverage) to redeem during our Book Club meeting to be held at the end of the month.
 
 
Dates for the Summer Book Club  - The Book Lovers Club Subscription Box
 
July 1st to 3rd  - Free local delivery of the Summer Book Lovers Subscription Box (includes a special signed, first edition hard copy of the book, a little gift, and a voucher to redeem for a drink at the meeting). The box can also be picked up at The Bruce Hotel or SAL's BOOK BAR. 
 
Tuesday June 28th - 6pm to 8pm - Book Club Meeting in the lobby of The Bruce Hotel
 
 
About the Book:  Whistler by Ann Patchett
 
“Ann Patchett’s new novel is a rare phenomenon in contemporary fiction: a novel both majestic and intimate, original and masterful in its structure, crystalline in its prose, revelatory in its insights, utterly devastating yet ultimately uplifting in its emotional impact. . . . I think it is her best novel yet.” —The Boston Globe
 
"A modern family's platonic, later-in-life love story. . . . intimate and entertaining [with a] generous worldview." - The New York Times
 
"Patchett. . . has a penchant for capturing the bittersweet nuances of family and friendship with wit and candor. . . . It's a simple yet soaring tale of love, memory and one extraordinary horse." - Elle
 
The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling writer returns with a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time.
 
When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.
 
Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. It’s a story about bravery, memory, the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives, and the endless stream of loss that in time comes for us all. Beautiful in its simplicity, it is ultimately about how love endures, and how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.
 
Ann Patchett is the author of novels, most recently the #1 New York Times bestselling Tom Lake, works of nonfiction, and children's books. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the PEN/Faulkner, the Women's Prize for Fiction in the UK, and the Book Sense Book of the Year. Her novel The Dutch House was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages, and Time magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. President Biden awarded her the National Humanities Medal in recognition of her contributions to American culture. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is the owner of Parnassus Books.