Commonwealth language games Tauhou is an ardent search

Tauhou is an ardent search for answers

Janet Marie Rogers

reckons with the theft of her ancestral homeland

"his quotidian reflections read like parables

When we write for ourselves and tell our own stories

Commonwealth language games Tauhou is an ardent searchOne 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,