Status Updates From Korrigeringer

Struggling through. Not East of Eden!

“that a salmon filet was now spreading down into chip’s underpants like a wide, warm slug did seem to have everything to do with his brain and a number of poor decisions that his brain had made” is possibly one of the best sentences i’ve ever read. really interested to see how this family of dipshits is going to get on as i continue reading

The Corrections is a complex family novel that explores the lives of the Lamberts, a Midwestern family whose members are all, in their own ways, trying to "correct" their lives as they converge for one last Christmas. Through a sharp and often cynical lens, Jonathan Franzen dissects the friction between traditional values and the anxieties of contemporary life, capturing the inevitable decay of the American Dream.