A ferociously good novel about how we tell the stories of our lives.
A stolen kiss at a christening. Two marriages undone. Five decades of family, tangled together.
This #1 New York Times Bestseller from PEN/Faulkner winner Ann Patchett is a tender, sweeping saga about who truly owns a story. Perfect for a foggy afternoon by the tide.
The kind you press into a friend’s hands.
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Some stories begin with a single, unexpected moment. This one starts with an uninvited guest and a stolen kiss at a christening party—and it ripples outward for five decades.
A #1 New York Times Bestseller from the beloved winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize, this is a novel to sink into on a foggy afternoon, with the sound of the tide just outside.
One Sunday in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—setting in motion the unraveling of two marriages and the unlikely joining of two families.
What follows is a sweeping, tender exploration of the four parents and six children caught in the aftermath. Summers spent together in Virginia. Bonds forged in shared disillusionment. And later, when a grown Franny confides her family’s story to a famous novelist, she learns just how quickly a life can slip from your own hands and into someone else’s pages.
Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and who truly owns a story. Critics have called it Patchett’s most personal and assured work yet—a book readers finish and immediately want to press into a friend’s hands.
This is literary fiction at its warmest and most human. The kind of family saga that lingers long after the last page, like salt air on your skin.
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A ferociously good novel about how we tell the stories of our lives.
Patchett's most powerful novel... a story about the collateral damage of divorce and remarriage, and the ways in which a group of siblings and half-siblings created by such upheaval remain bound together.
Patchett skillfully weaves together the storylines to create a whole that will resonate with readers... A superb, richly detailed novel.
A novel of superb human distances... Patchett has never been better.
| Weight | 0.55 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.31 × 0.76 × 8.00 in |
| Book Author | Ann Patchett |
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