Family Dysfunction: A Review of The Corrections
For years, I have heard about Jonathan Franzen, and particularly two of his novels, Freedom and the Corrections. They were two books which, if you went to any Barnes and Noble, you would find on a table in the middle of the aisle or on the first set of shelves in a series of shelves or on an end cap propped up prominently for all to view. Such placement is honor reserved for few novelists and denoted the special set of skills Jonathan Franzen possessed as an author. At one point, I had heard that Oprah had selected one of the books as one of her book club selections or some similar honor. (I have recently discovered that there is some controversy over such honor though that its existence really has no bearing on this review.) Both Freedom and the Corrections are tomes, extremely lengthy as modern novelist are wont to be. Seemingly, the longer the novel, the more prestigious it is. See for example the Goldfinch and the Luminaries as example, both of which were selected for elite p
