Patti Callahan Henry
Dec 26, 20215 min
AUGUST 18, 2021 FRIENDS AND FICTION
Patti Callahan Henry
Welcome to our Parade.com weekly essay series Novel Advice in partnership with Friends & Fiction, an online community hosted by bestselling authors Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Patti Callahan Henry and Mary Alice Monroe. Every Wednesday, you’ll get a new life lessons essay from one of the writers, as well as the chance to discuss the themes of it later that night on Facebook Live!
Today, Patti Callahan talks about how reading can turn into the vacation you’re dreaming of. Read why, and be sure to check back each week for a new essay right here on Parade.com.
Savannah, Georgia in Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
The beaches and small towns of North Carolina in Under the Southern Sky by Kristy Woodson Harvey
Mendocino, California in When Stars go Dark by Paula McLain
1800’s London and Australia in The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
The Music Scene in 1970’s California in Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reed
Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Paris, France in The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel
Provence, France in A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (suggested by Mary Kay Andrews)
Nantucket, Massachusetts in many of Elin Hilderbrand’s novels (suggested by Kristin Harmel)
1970’s Michigan in The Clover Girls by Wade Rouse (suggested by Kristy Woodson Harvey)
The Lowcountry of South Carolina and Italy in Beach Music by Pat Conroy (suggested by Managing Director of Friends and Fiction, Meg Walker).
Friends & Fiction is an online community, weekly live web show, and podcast founded and hosted by bestselling authors Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Patti Callahan Henry, and Mary Alice Monroe, who have written more than 90 novels between them and are published in more than 30 languages. Catch them and their incredible author guests live every Wednesday at 7pm ET on the Friends & Fiction Facebook group page or their YouTube Channel. Follow them on Instagram and, for weekly updates, subscribe to their newsletter.
Patti Callahan Henry is the New York Times bestselling, USA Today bestselling, and Globe and Mail bestselling novelist of 15 novels, including Becoming Mrs. Lewis and Surviving Savannah out now and Once Upon a Wardrobe, out October 19th, 2021. A recipient of the Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year, the Christy Book of the Year and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year, Patti is the co-founder and co-host of the popular web series and podcast Friends & Fiction. Follow her on Instagram, Facebook and on her website www.patticallahanhenry.com.