And as everyone knows, families are often messy- full of secrets, feuds, and miscommunications- but can also feature unshakeable bonds.Īlthough we follow these ten characters over the course of the next forty plus years, this is not a chronological story.
The affair and subsequent marriage of Bert Cousins and Beverly Keating joins together their six children and ex-spouses into a new, complex, blended family. This one afternoon will forever change the lives of the Cousins and Keating families. In 2012, Patchett was on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world by TIME magazine.Commonwealth begins with Franny Keating’s christening party a party involving an uninvited guest, fresh-squeezed orange juice, a gifted bottle of gin, and an extra-marital kiss. In 2010, when she found that her hometown of Nashville no longer had a good book store, she co-founded Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes the store opened in November 2011. It was also there that she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she met longtime friend Elizabeth McCracken. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and took fiction writing classes with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley. Bernard Academy, a private, non-parochial Catholic school for girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. the stable window that opens out into the imagination."
If asked if she could go any place, that place would always be home.
Patchett said she loves her home in Nashville with her doctor husband and dog. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was six, where she continues to live. Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California.
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