The overwhelmed Beverly escapes her six charges by hiding out in the family car. Bert's ex-wife, Teresa, achieves a modicum of revenge by sending the children on a flight from Los Angeles to Arlington with no luggage. They are not living a "Brady Bunch" life. Bert's four children, Calvin, Holly, Jeanette and Albie, spend summers in Arlington, but Bert finds reasons to spend more time at work in the summers, leaving Beverly to care for six children. Beverly's ex-husband, Fix, remains in Los Angeles and sees his daughters infrequently. They move to Arlington, Va., and bring Beverly's two young daughters, Caroline and Franny, with them. When Bert and Beverly marry, they break up two families and reconfigure everyone's destiny. A film version of Posen's "Commonwealth," released 20 years after the publication of his book, also plays an important role in Patchett's "Commonwealth." And much of Patchett's novel take place in the commonwealth of Virginia including an ironically tragic death that impacts all the surviving characters' lives. Inside Patchett's "Commonwealth" is a book of the same name written by Leon Posen, one of the novel's characters. Remove the novel's main story and a similar new one, of the same name, is revealed. The multilayered structure of "Commonwealth" brings to mind nesting dolls.
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