![]() ![]() You cannot come in, then go home and buy the book on Amazon. ![]() ![]() She has since become a rallying voice for independent bookstores. In 2011, she founded Parnassus Books, an idyll in a strip mall, with her business partner, Karen Hayes. What do you do when the bookstores in your hometown all shut down? If you’re Patchett, you open one yourself. Patchett climbs every mountain, but she will also mutter an occasional, and deliciously un-nun-like, “fuck!” To watch her in action is to hear the Mother Abbess from The Sound of Music singing, “Climb Ev’ry Mountain”. She exudes that sleeves-rolled, get-on-with it capability, paired with the clarity and occasional ferocity of true righteousness. Even if she hadn’t published an essay, “The Mercies”, about her schooling with the Sisters of Mercy, you might guess that Patchett had been raised by nuns. Today, the good that Patchett will do involves picking up a journalist from Nashville’s airport and devoting her whole day to zipping around town in her little silver Prius, showing said journalist her world. ![]()
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