Crossroads (A Key to All Mythologies, Book 1) [Corrected] - Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen

Part of Crossroads (A Key to All Mythologies · Book 1

Category: Novel

Narrator: David Pittu

Tags: Novel, General Fiction, Adults, Literature

Its December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless - unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clems sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has veered into the eras counterculture, while their younger brother, Perry, fed up with selling pot to support his drug habit, has firmly resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate., Universally recognized as the leading novelist of his generation, Jonathan Franzen is often described as a teller of family stories. Only now, though, in Crossroads, has he given us a novel in which a family, in all the intricacy of its workings, is truly at th