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” Crossroads” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. It’s December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem’s sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who’s been selling drugs to seventh graders, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate.Jonathan Franzen’s novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own.

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The title Crossroads could be called Blurred Boundaries. Russ and Marion and their four children–Clem, Becky, Perry, and Judson–are all highly intelligent and distinctively damaged. Generally, they live with poor boundaries. Reader, you’ll relate. Franzen doesn’t break walls, or puncture through ceilings with plot, but he will dazzle you with the authenticity of Marion, Russ, and three of their four children. Judson is the youngest child and the only one not fleshed out. (I think it is purposeful.) Depth of character is Franzen’s wheelhouse, and this narrative (a genre that he invented or at least contoured for the modern era) illustrates how lives bleed into each other, and who we are willing to discard on our way to become authentic and happy (or selfish and charlatan). Franzen practically created the modern domestic drama, and now he’s rearranging and adding the complication of religion.