num_pages: 195
description: A memoir of Jonathan Franzen's growth from a small and fundamentally ridiculous person, through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions. This book is also a portrait of a middle-class family weathering the turbulence of the 1970s.
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: Fourth Estate