![]() They tried to avoid revealing too many spoilers, but if you want to avoid knowing anything about the book before you read it, you should probably just go read the book right now. We thought we'd get the ball rolling by having a bit of a tête-à-tête between editors Harry Cheadle and Jennifer Schaffer. ![]() As evidenced by the fairly disparate reviews that have come out thus far, Franzen fans and dissenters alike will find much to discuss and digest in Purity. Set across multiple generations and continents like any good American epic, Purity takes readers from a squat in Oakland to a church basement Stasi-controlled East Berlin to Brown University to the urine-tainted bedroom of a physically handicapped alcoholic author in Denver. There's Pip (short for Purity), a young woman working a dead-end job in San Francisco to pay off her six-figure student debt Andreas Wolf, a Julian Assange–type tech maverick who has a number of secrets from his youth in East Germany and Tom and Leila, a pair of investigative journalists in Denver. ![]() The novel takes the form of several interconnected stories starring several different protagonists. His latest tome, Purity, which came out this month, is yet another lightning rod of controversy: It's been mostly praised, sometimes lavishly, but has also called "problematic" and been criticized for being a touch over the top. ![]() Jonathan Franzen is one of the world's most famous living novelists as well as one of the few writers whose every new book in a bona fide publishing event. ![]()
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