
Discomfort Zone
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen''s tale of growing up, squirming in his own über-sensitive skin, from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," into an adult with strong inconvenient passions. Whether he''s writing about the explosive dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship in the 1970s, the effects of Kafka''s fiction on his protracted que...
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen''s tale of growing up, squirming in his own über-sensitive skin, from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," into an adult with strong inconvenient passions. Whether he''s writing about the explosive dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship in the 1970s, the effects of Kafka''s fiction on his protracted que...