But in that shining moment, one pair of eyes saw something different: Dr. Rose Muralikrishnan, her former music teacher, saw the little girl she once nurtured in Carnatic music, blossoming into a ...

She had imagined herself as a girl with a typewriter. And now she was. ♦ Published in the print edition of the March 8, 2021, issue. Ann Patchett published the novel “Tom Lake” in 2023.