Somehow or the other, exactly as novelists are wont to, she ends up committing to the moment and promises her (thrilled) father that she will take the exam later that year and go into the Police Academy. Something that will wonder aloud, among other things, why people are still queuing up to join the LAPD, in view of its current crisis. Over the course of gin and tonics one evening, in her father’s den at Glendale, about twenty miles away from the scene of the riots, Patchett, like novelists are wont to, mid-conversation, apropos of nothing, announces she wants to write a book around the LAPD. She was visiting her father a month after the infamous Rodney King incident had irretrievably maligned the LAPD in national and international media – the same LAPD where her father had spent three decades working and which had formed a pleasant if persistent backdrop to the entire duration as it were of her childhood and youth. Her first novel, The Patron Saint for Liars, had just been published, and she was in the middle of the prestigious year-long Bunting Fellowship for writers, artists and scholars at Radcliffe College. In the summer of 1992, writer Ann Patchett – two times winner of the Orange Prize – decided to follow in her father’s footsteps and join the Los Angeles Police Department.

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