It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories.
Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. The event might be as innocent as dancing with a priest at a party, simply because no other man is available. The novel opens on a summer day in the quiet Los Angeles suburb of Downey. At the center of the novel is a traumatic loss that profoundly affects each family member in a different way. When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. In her gorgeous, masterly new novel, Ann Patchett examines how the heavy weight of the past hangs on the presentthe effect of a single action barreling down the decades, shaping lives for better or worse. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett is a story of two families that unfolds over the course of 50 years. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly-thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. The enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives.
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