A review by spiderfelt
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

5.0

The way Jonathan Franzen captures moments in his descriptions leaves me thinking about the story long after I've walked away. When the adult daughter goes to visit her mother, she feels itchy with irritation on the morning of the second day, after the glow of reunion has passed. She has an 'autonomous neurological reaction' to the small things in her childhood home. She wants to be cheerful, happy and friendly, but she is overwhelmed by her instinctive reaction to way things are. I can relate to these feelings so powerfully I can't stop working over this idea like a tongue bothers a sore tooth over and over again.