Purity

In Freedom, Franzen has written a grand work for our ethically complicated times. Pip Tyler, the little girl, has no idea who she is. And she knows that her true name is Purity Tyler, that she owes $130,000 in school loans and that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland. She doesn't know who her father is and why her mother decided to live as a hermit behind an alias, or how she would ever lead a regular life. The Germans have arrived. A chance meeting with a German peace campaigner leads Pip to an internship with The Sunlight Project in South America, an organization that trades in all the world's secrets including, Pip hopes, the mystery of her beginnings. Andreas Wolf is the brains of TSP.