Its 580 gripping pages are set in 1971 and track the once morally cohesive but suddenly splintering lives of Russ Hildebrandt, a minister, and his very white, very middle-class, very Middle American family. Do we need to hear any more about white people? Well, it depends on how the story is told.”Ĭrossroads is told very well. “If I started thinking about what angry people are going to say,” Franzen adds, “I would never write anything. He’s just published Crossroads, his sixth novel and eleventh book, and it’s already controversial. The best-selling, critically admired and endlessly berated writer is now 62 years old. “I write what I can write, and I happen to have a white middle class experience of the world,” Jonathan Franzen, the American novelist, is saying over the telephone.
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