A review by pharmdad2007
Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen

4.0

This is a nice book of essays from Franzen. The "title track" is a 5 star piece detailing the author's physical journey to a place about as far away from anything as it is possible to get and simultaneously his emotional journey to the farthest away reaches of the human soul, to that place that his friend and colleague David Foster Wallace must have reached shortly before taking his own life. Franzen's literal and figurative wanderings don't hold all the answers, but they do bring some amount of peace and understanding.

Several other of the essays are very good and I am looking forward to reading some of the books reviewed by Franzen in this collection.