The Discomfort Zone is Franzen's memoir of growth from his boyhood as a "small
and fundamentally ridiculous person," through an adolescence both excruciating
and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions.
It's also a portrait of a mid-western middle-class family weathering
the turbulence of the 1970s and a vivid personal history of an America turning
its back on a certain idealism.

Daring, honest, and written with the comic scrutiny and unqualified affection
that marks Franzen's fiction, The Discomfort Zone tells of the formation of one
young mind in the crucible of an everyday American family.

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