A Review of the Novel Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen

by Cheryl Sadowski

Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel, Crossroads, is a morality tale of exceptional depth that revolves around the soulful struggle of a family, each of whom wrestles with their own private demons. Christian mores hang thickly over the landscape while atheism, Native American spirituality, second-wave feminism, and sexual electricity challenge binary ideas of good and evil, heaven and hell, sin and salvation.