The novel will be Franzen’s first since Purity, which was released in 2015.įranzen has been one of the country’s most famous, and most polarizing, literary figures of the century. “Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.” “By turns comic and harrowing, a tour-de-force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, Crossroads is the first volume of a trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, that will span three generations and trace the inner life of our culture through the present day,” the publisher said. The novel, set in 1971, follows a Chicago family whose members each seek “a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate. Jonathan Franzen’s first novel in six years is coming next year.įarrar, Straus and Giroux will publish Franzen’s Crossroads, the first volume in a planned trilogy called A Key to All Mythologies, the publisher said in a news release.
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