We are reading Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett.
Ann Patchett's domestic tale, a stolen kiss at a christening party in the 1960s leads to a new blended family of six stepsiblings whom the novel follows over 50 years.
When, in her twenties, one of those stepsiblings begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak.
This will be the sixth Ann Patchett novel (of ten that she has written) that we have read as a group.
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