Freedom: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

Freedom is the story of the middle-class Berglund family and their friends and extended family. It follows the Berglunds' painfully dysfunctional and not-so-interesting life, jumping forward and back in time. Like his book The Corrections, I found it to be an honest, albeit vulgar, chronicle of relationships and our unrealistic expectations. I was going to give it four stars until I read The Atlantic review, a lot of which I agreed with, and then I downgraded. So what if I can't think for myself! I don't think I will read future Franzen books. They are a lot of work to get through.