This Is Us
If You Look Hard Enough at a Thing You Love, You End Up Seeing Hope
An appreciation of the American goldfinch
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6 min readJul 29, 2020
Near the end of Freedom, one of Jonathan Franzen’s novels about a family that is awful to each other, Walter Berglund, the paterfamilias and an obvious stand-in for Franzen, gets angry at his neighbors for letting their cat roam the…
