Her Story Is Reading "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett

Join us virtually on Wednesday, July 6th at 6:00pm to discuss Ann Patchett's Bel Canto. Now a modern classic, this novel won the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award when it was originally published in 2001.

Her story is a book club that meets on the first Wednesday of every month to discuss books by women, about women. Sign up at the link below for the link to the Zoom room! Book club will start at 6pm; we can't wait to meet you there. Happy reading!

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About the Book

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

"Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." —Washington Post Book World

New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett’s spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening—until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.

Patchett's lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.

About the Author 

Ann Patchett is the author of many novels, including Bel Canto, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction. She writes for the New York Times Magazine, Elle, GQ, the Financial Times, the Paris Review and Vogue. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.