Review: Miriam Toews’ wise, wonderful 'Fight Night' celebrates three generations of women
To critics, he’s an anachronism – a chronicler of trite paternalism and a faded middle-class social order. By contrast, their teenage sister, Becky, discovers pot and finds God.įranzen’s career-long fixation with writing hefty novels about white-bread nuclear families has a way of making the Twitterati’s eyes roll faster than the reels of a slot machine. (The novel is set in 19.) His brother Perry is drifting into drug abuse for want of a religious center. Their eldest son, Clem, has given up his Vietnam War student deferment in a rash fit of moral recalibration. His wife, Marion, feels old unspoken traumas resurfacing. Russ, a pastor in the Chicago suburbs, feels his faith evaporating as he pursues a widowed member of his flock.
Just about everybody in Jonathan Franzen’s superb domestic epic “Crossroads” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 592 pages, ★★★★ out of four) is dealing with a serious spiritual crisis.
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