At a time when Peru suffered an undercurrent of terrorist activity, president Fujimori was praised for his handling of the crisis and his approval rating soared. In 1996, the home of the Japanese ambassador to Peru was taken hostage by guerillas during a party and held for 126 days until the home was raided by military force killing all the insurgents, many executed after they surrendered. Let me preface this review by saying that I know this a disproportionately emotional review, but it's my review and my emotions and it is what it is. In 2012, Patchett was on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world by TIME magazine. In 2010, when she found that her hometown of Nashville no longer had a good book store, she co-founded Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes the store opened in November 2011. It was also there that she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars.
She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she met longtime friend Elizabeth McCracken. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and took fiction writing classes with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley. Bernard Academy, a private, non-parochial Catholic school for girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. the stable window that opens out into the imagination." If asked if she could go any place, that place would always be home. Patchett said she loves her home in Nashville with her doctor husband and dog. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was six, where she continues to live. I didn't buy her allure.There seemed too many characters and not enough depth to any of them.Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. She also has an array of drooling fans who have managed to fall in love with her. The large group are holed up in the vice-presidents mansion for months on end.The main, and only female, hostage is a famous opera singer who somehow manages to get her own bedroom and personal attendant for the duration of the "situation". We meet some of the hostage takers (terrorists), who get the same lightweight treatment as far as personal histories go.
We meet a handful of the guests, hear about their circumstances, their relationships and histories. I kept wanting to read it, but it left me disappointed in what I think could have been a great story.A load of distinguished party guests are taken hostage after the man they wanted to kidnap was found absent from the party he was supposed to be attending.
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