The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

A troubled family prepares for one last Christmas

Very Good Condition - with cover scuffing, small corner creases, curled covers and a rear bookshop price label. Page edges are browned. The photographed text spread appears unmarked.

Enid Lambert wants to bring her husband and their three adult children together for a final family Christmas, but each has difficulties that threaten the reunion. Alfred’s worsening Parkinson’s disease places new pressure on the household, while the children struggle with careers, relationships, and the uneasy distance between their lives and their parents’ expectations. As family histories and private compromises emerge, Jonathan Franzen moves between generations to examine the ways people try to correct themselves and one another. The Corrections combines humor with an unsparing view of ambition, disappointment, and love. It is a family novel about the desire for connection and the habits that make that connection difficult.