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Ann Patchet in conversation with Nerdette presented by Women & Children First / Thursday, October 20 at 7 p.m.
Women & Children First is proud to present, Ann Patchett for a reading, discussion, and Q&A for her highly anticipated novel, COMMONWEALTH. For this event, Ann will be in conversation with Greta Johnsen, co-host of WBEZ's Nerdette podcast.
The bestselling author and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families lives.
One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.
Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them.
Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, COMMONWEALTH is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.
About the Author
Ann Patchett is the author of six novels and three books of nonfiction. She has won many prizes, including Britain's Orange Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Prize, and the Book Sense Book of the Year. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is the co-owner of Parnassus Books.
About NERDETTE Podcast
Nerdette Podcast hosts interviews with your favorite authors, artists, astronauts and more. Because everybody is a little nerdy about something. From WBEZ.
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5255 N. Ashland Avenue
Chicago, IL 60640
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