Commonwealth Ariana Godoy an accident of fate leads

an accident of fate leads her back to Bahman and offers her a chance to ask him the questions that have haunted her for more than half a century: Why did you leave

a young woman whose father abandoned her at age nine with her younger siblings in an isolated cottage in the depth of winter

in school hallways

gravely ill

From discovering that her parents secretly divorced to facilitate her mother's green card application to learning how to tame her unibrow

Commonwealth Ariana Godoy an accident of fate leadsExquisite. . . Commonwealth is impossible to put down. New York Times #1 New York Times Bestseller NBCC Award Finalist New York Times Best Book of the Year USA Today Best Book TIME Magazine Top 10 Selection Oprah Favorite Book New York Magazine Best Book of The Year The acclaimed, bestselling authorwinner of the PEN Faulkner Award and the Orange Prizetells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families