Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish Jonathan Franzen’s CROSSROADS, the first novel in his trilogy A KEY TO ALL MYTHOLOGIES. The trilogy tells the story of a Midwestern family across three generations, mirroring the preoccupations and dilemmas of the United States from the Vietnam War to the 2020s. Crossroads is scheduled to be published in October 2021.
Crossroads is the beginning of a story that encompasses all the “mythologies”—the political, religious, and intellectual... crosscurrents—that have animated and troubled American life in recent decades. Not since The Corrections has an American novel explored how we live now with such intimacy, insight, and humor.
“Franzen has been universally recognized as the leading novelist of his generation, an inheritor of Steinbeck and Faulkner,” says FSG President Jonathan Galassi. “He has been telling us the inner history of contemporary America in novel after novel, from The Twenty-Seventh City to The Corrections to Freedom, culminating now in A Key to All Mythologies.”
Franzen will read at the KGB Bar Homecoming Festival on Tuesday, 17/11. You can RSVP online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kgb-bar-homecoming-festival-jo….
