Crossroads

by Franzen, Jonathan | USA
Published 04/10/2022 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 592 pages
129 x 198 x 37mm | 390g

'His best novel yet ... A Middlemarch-like triumph' Telegraph

'A pleasure bomb of a novel' Vogue

'A true modern master' Independent

It's 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents - Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife - tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing.

'Funny, moving, crackling with life, it has what all great fiction should have' Financial Times

'Intoxicating - a luxuriant domestic drama' Guardian

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