Fiction Book Review: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (592p) ISBN 978-0-374-18117-8
Purity) returns with a sweeping and masterly examination of the shifting culture of early 1970s America, the first in a trilogy. The action is centered on the small Indiana town of New Prospect, where the each of the Hildebrandts is experiencing a sea change. The father, Russ, is an associate minister at First Reformed Church and has developed an illicit attraction to a new parishioner, the widow Frances Cottrell, whose zest for life makes Russ feel a renewed sense of his âedge.â Russ is also embroiled in a yearslong feud with Rick Ambrose, who runs the churchâs youth organizat...
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