Splinters

Sam Anderson in New York Magazine on Jonathan Franzen, firstly The Corrections:-

"It’s either an era-defining work of genius or an overhyped middlebrow soap opera—a bold reclamation of a classic genre (the realist family novel) or an irrelevant exercise in a dead form."

I suspected I might have been the latter of these two camps, until reading it and finding myself firmly in the former. Loved it.  Which brings us to his new work - Freedom. On which:-

"It’s either an era-defining work of genius or an overhyped middlebrow soap opera—a bold reclamation of a classic genre (the realist family novel) or an irrelevant exercise in a dead form."

Sounds worth a go.