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Jul 27, 2017sgcf rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Although I needed to keep track of characters on a scrap of paper stuck in the book, I let myself fall into the story, trusting, knowing I was in Patchett’s masterful hands. (Loved her Bel Canto.) This story is all about character as they explore the drama of chaotic, ordinary life. The plot is a series of vignettes strung together through their differing perspectives, and is partly a metafiction when the family reads the book (called Commonwealth) written about their own family that is made into a movie. Gluing it altogether is Patchett’s clever insight and subtle wit into the family’s “commonwealth” – their “general good.”