"I missed my mother's father. Is that even possible? Maybe I had fallen asleep for a while. Maybe I was like her, just waking up and looking for him to be there. I wondered how it would have changed things for all of us if he had stayed home the day he was supposed to die in his car. How his decision to go out for something small, something like coffee or orange juice which everyone could have done without, had changed things for all of us."

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Ann Patchett is an American novelist and essayist known for contemporary literary fiction including Bel Canto and The Dutch House. She is also recognized for independent bookselling advocacy.

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