I just started reading it and am enjoying it so far. It's been on my TBR for a long time. I have never read any of Ann Patchett's works before which is one of the reasons I nominated it. I found this interesting interview with the author about her most recent book.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...w-commonwealth
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All of her novels, she explains, are the same story: a group of people are thrown together and must forge connections to survive. “I’ve been writing the same book my whole life – that you’re in one family, and all of a sudden, you’re in another family and it’s not your choice and you can’t get out.”
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“I have been shown so much kindness in my life, so for me to write books about good, kind people seems completely natural,” Patchett says. “When people say, ‘Oh it’s too nice, it’s naive,’ I just think: who killed your mother?”
It violates a literary taboo to write fiction that suggests people might be fundamentally good.
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