Discomfort Zone The

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzens tale of growing up squirming in his own übersensitive skin from a small and fundamentally ridiculous person into an adult with strong inconvenient passions. Whether hes writing about the explosive dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship in the 1970s the effects of Kafkas fiction on his protracted quest to lose his virginity or the web of connections between bird watching his allconsuming marriage and the problem of global warming Franzen is always feelingly engaged with the world we live in now. The Discomfort Zone is a wise funny and gorgeously written selfportrait by one of Americas finest writers.