6/21/2023 0 Comments Purity book jonathan franzenWhile Purity is mostly about Pip and her journey to seek the truth about herself and her family, it’s told through the eyes of alternating characters and takes the reader to Germany, Bolivia, and Denver. When Wolf and Pip meet, something in both of them shifts, unleashing a cacophony of events that weave together so intricately that I can’t imagine the story unfolding in any other way. Wolf is an interesting (and primary) character in his own right. Being in the business of exposing secrets, one might expect him to be beyond reproach, but real life isn’t perfect and everyone is hiding something. Convinced that the secret to all of her problems is figuring out who her father is, she ends up in Bolivia working for a hacktivist leaker named Andreas Wolf. What’s not so typical is that she grew up with an eccentric mother (whose real name she doesn’t know) and has no idea who her father is. Purity, in a nutshell, is about a young woman named Pip. In many ways, Pip is your average millennial with a college degree – she’s renting, has a ton of debt, and is struggling to find a decent paying job. Power, power, power: how could the world be organized around the struggle for a thing so lonely and oppressive in the having of it? Purity … how terrible the world was, what an eternal struggle for power.
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