When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art they notice an older gentleman following them. He is Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been briefly married to her mother, Abigail, when Daphne was nine. Now 53, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie since a fateful car accident that changed the direction of both their lives. Although Eddie and her mother were together for less than two years, Daphne and her sister built a life-changing amount of trust with him. And now that Daphne and Eddie are reunited, they do not want to be separated again. The story takes place in the weeks after their reunion, as Daphne learns the truth behind the divorce and revisits the accident and its reverberations. Whistler is ultimately an uplifting novel about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. It’s about secrets, memory, storytelling, family life, and how the feeling of being known by another person, even for a short time, can change everything.
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