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the truculent caricatures he has been beset by ever since The Corrections was published

Franzen intertwines these complicated gavottes with customary ease

[...] Cryptic notes in the margins of a grocery list: Consider a change. Remember to leave. The words "don't forget" crossed out. Affirmations tucked in a drawer in the bathroom with the old pregnancy tests and Vaseline: You are worthwhile. It makes you blush to find them but she's not trying t…

Tell your family. Use the word temporary. [...] Your grandfather will tell you that nannying is for foreigners and retards.

She's also some kind of doyenne of the local crafts scene.