Purity
Picador USA
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA 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 CrossroadsYoung Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with [...] 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 South America with the Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the...
