The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen

The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

Jonathan Franzen

195 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography essays memoir challenging reflective slow-paced

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Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. The Discomfort Zone is his intimate memoir of his growth from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," through an adolescence both excruciating and str...

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