Zi you

By Jonathan Franzen

Subjects: Chang pian xiao shuo, Environmentalists, Husband and wife, Middle class families, Fiction, City and town life

Description: The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.