‘His best novel yet … A Middlemarch-like triumph’ Telegraph‘A pleasure bomb of a novel’ Vogue‘A true modern master’ Independent It’s 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents – Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife – tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing.
‘Funny, moving, crackling with life, it has what all great fiction should have’ Financial Times
‘Intoxicating – a luxuriant domestic drama’ Guardian
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 • AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR • A LIT HUB BOOK OF THE YEAR
© 2021 Fourth Estate (Lydbog): 9780008308926
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Lydbog: 5. oktober 2021
‘His best novel yet … A Middlemarch-like triumph’ Telegraph‘A pleasure bomb of a novel’ Vogue‘A true modern master’ Independent It’s 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents – Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife – tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing.
‘Funny, moving, crackling with life, it has what all great fiction should have’ Financial Times
‘Intoxicating – a luxuriant domestic drama’ Guardian
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 • AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR • A LIT HUB BOOK OF THE YEAR
© 2021 Fourth Estate (Lydbog): 9780008308926
Release date
Lydbog: 5. oktober 2021
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Ole
27. okt. 2021
Skuffende, men lang. Eneste lyspunkt er karakteren Marion, men slet ikke nok til at løfte historien. Religionen er med til at dræbe fortællingen.
Nanna
25. jul. 2022
Velskrevet og veloplæst og en sand Franzen-historie, som jeg vist desværre har læst for mange af nu til helt at lade mig rive med.
K
1. okt. 2022
Lukker bogen med en fornemmelse af at jeg ikke glemmer denne familie foreløbig. Alle uperfekte, og med hver deres refleksioner over religion. Det er svært at forholde sig til når man ikke selv er dybt religiøs, og det ville normalt få mig til at stoppe med at lytte. Men den er ikke prædikende. Den fortæller blændende om både deres intense søgen, men især synes jeg den viser hvordan uperfekte mennesker bruger religion til både hykleri og alskens virkelig pinlig (og underholdende) selvbedrag!
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