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The author writes: Franny came out in The New Yorker/EM Zooey. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently
...(more) an ambitious one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.(less)
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This book is a phenomenal work of art in that it has the ability to intertwine hilarious dialogue, the seriousness of depression and death while the whole time introducing readers to the mysticism of the Eastern Church, Buddhism and other schools of thought that most were probably not familiar with at the time of its printing.