‘Crossroads’ by Jonathan Franzen | Entertainment News
The sixth novel from Jonathan Franzen, “Crossroads” is meant to be the first in a proposed trilogy. It centers on a Midwestern family at a crisis point and takes place almost entirely over the course of a single day during the 1970s. The Hildebrandt family includes husband and father Russ Hildebrandt, an associate pastor, his wife Marion Hildebrandt, and their three children, all of whom have come to a moral crossroads. Writing for the New York Times Book Review, critic Dwight Garner remarked the character Marion as “one of the glorious characters in recent American fiction.”
