Commonwealth

Ann Patchett 2016

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
family blended family grief time

Our Take

A novel that begins with a christening kiss and unfolds across six children, two marriages, and fifty years of blended family damage. Patchett traces grief backward and forward in time — the death at the center radiates outward through everyone who was not there when it happened.

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