What now? Is June eBook of the Month

Bestselling author Ann Patchett offers an essay on hope and inspiration for graduates and anyone at a crossroads

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 30 May, 2008— Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestselling author Ann Patchett offers hope and inspiration for anyone at a crossroads, whether graduating, changing careers, or transitioning from one life stage to another. With wit and candor, Patchett tells her own story of attending college, graduating, and struggling with the inevitable question, What now?

From student to line cook to teacher to waitress and eventually to award-winning author, Patchett's own life has taken many twists and turns that make her exploration genuine and resonant. As Patchett writes, "'What now?' represents our excitement and our future, the very vitality of life." Praised as “The best graduation present on the market…” by Publisher’s Weekly, What now? highlights the possibilities the unknown offers and reminds us that there is as much joy in the journey as there is in reaching the destination.

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About the Author

Ann Patchett is the author of the novels Run (a New York Times Bestseller), The Patron Saint of Liars (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Taft (winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize), The Magician's Assistant (Guggenheim Fellowship), and Bel Canto (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, England's Orange Prize, and the Book Sense Book of the Year Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), which has been translated into more than thirty languages. Her nonfiction book, Truth & Beauty, was a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the winner of a Books for a Better Life Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has written for many publications, including Atlantic Monthly, Harper's magazine, Gourmet, the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and the Washington Post. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

About HarperCollins Publishers
Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins Publishers is a broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, business books, children's books, cookbooks, and mystery, romance, reference, religious, and spiritual books. Consistently at the forefront of innovation and technological advancement, HarperCollins is the first publisher to digitize its content and create a global digital warehouse to protect the rights of its authors, meet consumer demand and generate additional business opportunities. For more information, visit: http://www.harpercollins.com.

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