Novelist Patchett has Nashville bookstore customers swooning The Nashville bookstore that opened and thrived while others were closing their doors is once again defying the oddsNASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Nashville bookstore that opened and thrived while others were closing their doors is once again defying the odds, thanks, in part, to its famous novelist co-owner. How could pandemic-stressed book purchasers resist a read she describes as a “cross between a puppy and a warm bath”? In addition to the book-related customer comments, a lot of posts also ask where Patchett gets her dresses. Parnassus opened in 2011, shortly after two large Nashville bookstores — the once-independent Davis-Kidd and the chain store Borders — shut down in quick succession. Despite the naysayers, Parnassus thrived.

Source: ABC News June 26, 2020 16:13 UTC