![]() ![]() Russ looks at Marion, now dumpy mother of three, and wonders how he got stuck. ![]() In fact, the teens despise him, finding him too pious, with a perv vibe. Not yet a full pastor and feeling a bit of a fraud as his wife essentially writes his sermons, Russ is out of touch with the young members of his teen fellowship group, Crossroads. This was the time when he met Marion, and all life choices were made to bring him to his current situation. Son of a Mennonite family, he chose his faith and career after alternative service during World War II at a Navaho reservation. ![]() Russ is assistant pastor at First Reformed Church, who, at 47, feels unfulfilled in career, marriage, and life. ![]() Meet the Hildebrandt family, Russ and Marion, and their children Clem, Becky, Perry, and Judson, living in New Prospect, ILL, fictional suburb of Chicago. He sets out to examine the cycles within families, reoccurring patterns influenced by some combination of nature and nurture, the telling and retelling of family stories, and how traits, quirks, and tendencies repeat with their own twists. Set in the early Seventies, when I was a tween, this is the first of a proposed trilogy of novels by Franzen. ![]()
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