Ann Patchett

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TED Talks Daily · The art of the novel | Ann Patchett · 29 Aug 2026 podcast

And she's like four eleven and weighs eighty pounds and is Italian.

And I got out of the car.

And she's she's standing there holding out her arms to me.

And I thought

This woman doesn't hate me.

This woman was never unkind to me.

This woman only wanted to teach me to read.

And I have held a grudge against her.

All this time.

And I took that

an energy, that scenario, and I gave it to Daphne and her mother.

So Daphne is incredibly angry at her mother when when she is nine years old, because Abigail, Daphne's mother, is divorcing Eddie.

Daphne can't stand this, it's unfair.

And she really breaks with her mother.

And as she becomes an adult, she still is distant and cold to her mother because she's still angry.

And over the course of the novel.

She has the chance to really see as an adult what her mother was struggling with, with both her first husband and her second husband, and her third husband in a different way.

And and Daphne can finally see her mother.

As a human being.

And it's not that Daphne forgives her mother, it's that Daphne comes to understand there was nothing to forgive.

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