num_pages: 208
description: A New York Times Notable Book of the YearThe 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.
language: English
title: The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
titlecomplete: The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
genres: Biography, American, The United States Of America, Memoir, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Audiobook
ratings_count: 6278
places: Webster Groves, Missouri
publisher: Picador