![]() ![]() ![]() Bert had a conversation at work with someone who thought that he had been invited, but he hadn’t, because he was a newcomer to the area and had barely met Fix Keating. The story is simple, and it could be read quite simply and naturally, but it reveals much. ![]() This is the first chapter, and it is so accomplished. 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.” “One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. I expected it to be good, of course I did but I didn’t expect it to have such depth and yet be so easy to read, and I didn’t expect it to preoccupy my thoughts during the days I spent travelling through its pages.īecause this is a story of families, a story of lives lived, it would be very easy to say too much about people I met in this book who were so very real, and so I am going to spin my thoughts around the four paragraphs that I read before I started to read the book itself. I’ve read some of Ann Patchett’s work but it’s been a long time since our last encounter because I’ve liked what I’ve well enough to want to read more, but not quite well enough for months and years to slip by before a book landed that I thought I really must read. ![]()
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