Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett · 2016
Literary Fiction · ranked #213 in category
A stolen kiss at a California christening in 1964 begins the dismantling of two families whose children grow up intertwined across fifty years. Patchett's most personal novel traces what divorce does to children across generations — and how the story of a family becomes the story a novelist tells.
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