Words Wednesday: Jonathan Franzen
Today’s Words Wednesday features a quote from Jonathan Franzen’s 2001 novel, The Corrections.
Winner of the National Book Award in 2001, Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections tells the story of the Lambert family from a fictional Midwestern town called St. Jude. The three adult children left their parents in St. Jude many years before, but now each one faces his or her own brand of personal crisis while their father slowly descends into dementia.
Listen to Jonathan Franzen’s interview about The Corrections on NPR.
“And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight—isn’t that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you’re less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn’t it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you’ve experienced before? You see things more clearly and you know that you’re seeing them more clearly. And it comes to you that this is what it means to love life, this is all anybody who talks seriously about God is ever talking about. Moments like this.”
-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
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