[Review] The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen

As promised, here's Part 2 of my Jonathan Franzen feature books. Title: The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History Author: Jonathan Franzen Page: 195 pages Genre: Non-Fiction Subject: Memoir First Published: September 1st 2002 The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen’s tale of growing up, squirming in his own über-sensitive skin, from a “small and fundamentally ridiculous person,” into an adult with strong inconvenient passions. Whether he’s writing about the explosive dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship in the 1970s, the effects of Kafka’s fiction on his protracted quest to lose his virginity, or the web of connections between bird watching, his all-consuming marriage, and the problem of global warming, Franzen is always feelingly engaged with the world we live in now. The Discomfort Zone is a wise, funny, and gorgeously written self-portrait by one of America’s finest writers. - Synopsis from www.goodreads.com A New York Times Notable Book of the