Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen’s superbly rendered new social-historical novel of the 70s takes its title from a Christian youth group founded by its main character, Russ Hildebrandt, a frayed and earnest Protestant minister living in a beige Chicago suburb with his mercurial wife, Marion, and their four energetic children, three nearly grown.
Crossroads, a vaguely creepy encounter group, incarnates the cultural slippage of the era, blending psychotherapy and faith and prizing raw emotional candor over traditional doctrinal obedience.
