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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Notable Book

So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent (The Chicago Tribune), the New York Times bestseller Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, a daring and penetrating book from the most intelligent novelist of [his] generation (The New Republic), Jonathan Franzen, the author of Crossroads

Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her motherher only familyis hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life.

A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South Am

Purity

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    A Paperback / softback by Jonathan Franzen

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 12 October 2021
      ISBN-13 9781250824035
      978-1250824035
      ISBN-10 1250824036

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
      A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Notable Book

      So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent (The Chicago Tribune), the New York Times bestseller Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, a daring and penetrating book from the most intelligent novelist of [his] generation (The New Republic), Jonathan Franzen, the author of Crossroads

      Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her motherher only familyis hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life.

      A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South Am

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