I just finished “Freedom” by Jonathan Franzen. It is a wide ranging two generation type family history book. Lets just say that if you settle for who you can get rather than who you want sometimes the ramifications can go on for decades, especially if your write a therapeutic autobiography not for publication describing the situation in detail. For goodness sake don’t let the person you settled for get the therapeutic autobiography because then all crap breaks loose and even though the person you settled for is now the person you want, they may not want you any more and that is really bad therapy.

And the kids, oh yeah the kids. You can really screw the kids up royal especially if they turn out to be as big a jerks as you are.

I loved Franzen’s The Corrections, and I love this book also. Not very many others did. I got my copy in the remainder bin at Barnes and Noble. Really cheap.

Four stars out of five on this one for me.