Freedom

An Oprah’s Book Club 2010 Selection and #1 National bestseller. In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen gives readers an epic of contemporary love and marriage. The novel comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl., the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Patty and Walter Berlund as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Jonathan Franzen produces an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our all-too contemporary time. 597p. Kindle Price: $9.99