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Britain's diverse communities will come together across London to mark King Charles III's coronation. But the festivities will also be viewed with ambivalence by some including those with African Caribbean backgrounds and other minorities for whom the British Empire’s past wrongs still loom large.

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It's been three years since Patchett's "Commonwealth," so fans will welcome this new novel about another broken family that also retains some close relationships. It focuses on a brother and sister raised with wealth but whose fortunes fell after their father's death. (Harper; Sept. 24)Â