Jonathan Franzen shows with great insight how personality defects can be passed on from one generation to the next. The latter is then left to untangle erroneous presumptions held since childhood and try to make sense of it all.
An emphatic depiction of dementia in the older degenerating mind and its associated pain is presented and well done. The intertwining of drugs and modern family interactions is included here and although nothing new, the fallacy of their effectiveness with personal problems cannot be hammered home enough.

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