On September 24, 2010 at 7 p.m., Politics & Prose hosted Jonathan Franzen at G.W. University Lisner Auditorium. Nine years after his National Book Award-winning The Corrections, Franzen presents Freedom, which chronicles the ups and downs--mainly the downs--of the Berglunds. Patty, once a promising basketball player, is now a depressed suburban wife and mother, battling neighbors and her own demons. Her husband talks green but does business with the coal industry, while their old friend Richard has descended from would-be rock stardom to building decks. Click here to hear the podcast of this event. Click below to buy the book. Freedom (Hardcover) By Jonathan Franzen $28.00ISBN-13: 9780374158460 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 08/01/2010