The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen • 2001
Devastation Rating
family literary fiction loss mental health
Our Take
Alfred Lambert is losing his mind and his family are too busy losing themselves to notice. Franzen writes the American family as a system of mutual disappointment with savage precision. The holiday gathering everyone is dreading is the engine, and the dread is entirely justified. Love here is mostly a form of damage.
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