The unforgiving mining of other’s personal lives for stories such as the writer Leon Posen does with Franny Keating. The dying parents and anxious eagerness to share stories and memories before they finally fade away with death. The mother managing her step children and trying to figure them out. The single working mother trying to manage a brood of children. And yet there are many more subtle layers to this magnificently elegant novel. Families where the lives and secrets of the brood of half-brothers and sisters comes together as it would for any other family. A family where the parents have separated and built their lives separately with other partners and children again. Bookseller and award-winning author, Ann Patchett’s seventh novel, Commonwealth is an extraordinarily beautiful ode to daily life in America.
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