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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Notable Book
-So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent- (The Chicago Tribune), the New York Times bestseller Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, a daring and penetrating book from -the most intelligent novelist of [his] generation- (The New Republic), Jonathan Franzen, the author of Crossroads
Young Pip Tyler doesn-t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she-s saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she-s squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother-her only family-is hazardous. But she doesn-t have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she-ll ever have a normal life.
A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in So
