Name: Common 9781915983428 Paperback
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Common 9781915983428 Paperback

A coming to terms with marriage and career, the life-long impact of a fathers alcoholism, and an aunts insistent example to live an unroofed life.I...

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A coming to terms with marriage and career, the life-long impact of a fathers alcoholism, and an aunts insistent example to live an unroofed life.I had gone to the common under the vague impression that I wished to recapture something of a life I no longer possessed.Following his aunt Abilenes death, Robert travels from Manchester to Hampshire to settle her estate. Instead of fulfilling his executor duties, he impulsively builds a hut on nearby Ludshott Common and stays for seven days. This introspective novel explores his week in nature as he grapples with loss, disillusionment, marriage, career, parenthood, white male privilege, and his fathers alcoholism.Blending fiction, auto-fiction, and place writing, Common is a novel about solitude, connection, and the fragile peace we attempt to make with ourselvesa portrait ofrenewal, reckoning, and the frequently failed attempt to reconnect with both past legacies and present realities.

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