![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Commonwealth, Ann Patchett explores what happens when you do. But what happens when what makes you happy makes everyone miserable? For the most part, we all do what makes us happy. My thoughts – Have you ever considered if the decisions you make for yourself somehow effect the people around you? Thinking that way would probably put you on eggshells for the rest of your life. 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. A story about how the decisions you make for yourself can trigger effects across everyone you love. ![]()
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