![]() ![]() ![]() Bodily functions, including shitting, are recounted. At least one character experiments with drugs and you get to read EVERY detail. His flawed, neurotic characters express their worries and fears but for the most part don’t grow or mature or have much self-understanding. I also found it strangely repetitive from what I remember. And I was no longer engaged by being RIGHT INSIDE someone’s head and following along their every thought, all 8,271 of them. So, reading ‘ Crossroads‘ over 20 years later, I wonder: have I changed? Or has Franzen? I no longer found the shifts in perspective between different family members very interesting. I found it comic, poignant, brilliant and unfortunately relatable, and I was very much swept into the story. I still remember reading ‘ The Corrections‘ and then recommending it to everyone I knew. ![]()
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