When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of t… — Jonathan Franzen

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

Jonathan FranzenNovelist · American · b. 1959

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