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Sep 27, 2021 · Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, “Crossroads,” is the first in a projected trilogy, which is reason to be wary. Good trilogies rarely announce themselves as such at the start.
Read 6,597 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of soc….
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Oct 5, 2021 · Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon.
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Oct 5, 2021 · The Vietnam War does drive one plotline in “Crossroads,” and plenty of domestic ills infect its different settings: the backfiring do-goodism by suburban white liberals, the coal-mining ...
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Oct 4, 2021 · Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career. Review by Ron Charles. October 5, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EDT. Thank God for Jonathan Franzen. His new novel ...
Crossroads received favorable reviews, with a cumulative "Positive" rating at the review aggregator website Book Marks, based on 48 book reviews from mainstream literary critics.
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Oct 5, 2021 · Entombed with big ideas and eccentric characters, Crossroads is a brilliant, excessive, and absorbing novel that instantly feels like Franzen’s finest." ―Brady Brickner-Wood, The Chicago Review of Books. "Like a latter-day George Eliot, Franzen can light up large thematic skies but also keep his eye on the sparrow."
