6/2/2023 0 Comments Franzen crossroads review![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And unlike Franzen's previous big-theme novels, there's no detour to visit arms dealers in Eastern Europe, or hackers in South America. In Jonathan Franzen's latest novel, Crossroads, middle-class Christian white Americans take the stage. Still other readers may resist being hauled back into the world of middle-class white Americans, a demographic which has already had plenty of time on center stage. Other readers, however, may be drawn to his novels precisely because they take aim at perennial questions, often from small and unlikely places: from messy Midwestern family homes, from the small uncomfortable pits of failed marriages, from isolated cabins of eccentrics who have ducked out of the world and its problems. For readers who already find him aloof and arrogant, even bombastic, the big-theme titles probably reinforce this characterization. For some readers, Jonathan Franzen's one-word novel titles signal that he is a storyteller who wants to handle big themes. ![]()
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