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Kent Winward
Nov 13, 2012 rated it really liked it
Fun for Franzen fans- six essay-astic forays into growing up the kind of mid-Westerner that could write Freedom and The Corrections. Also perfect for those fringe/Boomer-Gen Xers that grew up in the 70s.

I still don't understand what he sees in the birds.

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