Not quite an adored author yet, I do really love Ann Patchett's writing.
Bel Canto is a lovely and complicated novel about a birthday party for a Japanese businessman in South America where guerillas crash the party and take all the partygoers hostage, including the opera singer scheduled to sing at the party. What stays with me is Patchett's relationships and her beautiful writing on opera. I also love
Run, a marvelous, gripping novel about a white, Irish family who adopted young black boys and the family secrets and dramas that unfold after a woman pushes one of the boys out of the way of a car, and ends up in the hospital.
