01103cam a2200277 4500 134724348 TxAuBib 20100316120000.0 100316s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010010273 9780374158460 0374158460 9780312600846 0312600844 DLC DLC CoBoFLC TxAuBib Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom / Jonathan Franzen. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 562 p. ; 24 cm. The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged. Middle class families Fiction. City and town life Minnesota Fiction. Husband and wife Minnesota Fiction. Dysfuntional family Fiction.