![]() Patchett has long explored the awkwardness, pain and grace that come when total strangers are forced into unexpected alliances. Much happens during those sweltering, feral months, some of it exhilarating, some of it unbearable: One of Bert’s children dies. ![]() Bert’s four kids come and visit every summer. It doesn’t take long for Bert and Beverly to run off to Virginia together, her two little girls in tow. Nor is it the only act of indecency he’ll commit: By party’s end, Bert has kissed Beverly, Fix’s wife. Alcohol is an obviously indecent gift for him to bring on such a sacred occasion, but he offers it to the baby’s father, Fix, without a dram of embarrassment. He’s self-important, entitled - a man whose fate has been overdetermined by his stupefying good looks. ![]() ![]() The fellow bearing this bottle, Bert Cousins, is a deputy district attorney who has crashed a christening party in Torrance, Calif., to escape his own squalling brood (three little ones, a fourth on the way). Its contents will dissolve an entire family. “Commonwealth,” Ann Patchett’s exquisite new novel, opens with one man handing a bottle of gin to another. ![]()
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In 1963 after a whirlwind courtship he married Sylvia and their son Shamir was born two years later. ![]() Sikundar was born in Mombasa, Kenya, grew up in Uganda, studied in England and returned to Uganda as an electronics engineer and started his own business. Sikundar passed away peacefully in Lady Minto Hospital on the evening of March 14th in the presence of his wife Sylvia and close friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() in 1884 are available free online at My Genealogy Hound. 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