It had been a complicated but also a very interesting experience. And they had to move to the other side of the country, though not to Virginia. The story is rather autobiographical as Patchett's parents got divorced when she was young and the mother married someone who had four children. Over the course of five decades, while the Keating-Cousins children were all going their own ways, they were still a family, still bound by shared memories and still bound together with real affection. The issues come together - the theft of family secrets and questions about the border between fact and fiction. It had to be the baby of the family, Albie Cousins, to discover his past in this book. She has no inkling that her memories of her childhood could be brought together into a best-selling novel, entitled Commonwealth, a book in a book. Franny Keating, now a law school dropout, working as a cocktail waitress in Chicago, embarks on an affair with a very famous novelist, much older than her. It is 1988, 26 years after the christening. This is the story how their lives were disrupted and how they variously intertwined and what really happened on this fateful day seven years later on the day that one child died. On the contrary, what emerges is a curious commonwealth of neglected children. Thus began an affair that ended two marriages and set in motion the joining of the two families whose shared fate will be defined on a day seven years later.īringing the children of two divorces together under one roof is called a "blended family" but this family does not blend.
He brought with him a bottle of gin and he took a kiss from Beverly, Franny's very beautiful mother.
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