Purity by Jonathan Franzen Dear Evelyn is a novel

Dear Evelyn is a novel of contrasts

But the birth of his twins

The women are left to be breadwinners and protectors

embittered mother

All is well with their first child

Purity by Jonathan Franzen Dear Evelyn is a novel*Used like new Published by Picador 2015 A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom. 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