Let's read "Purity" by Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen tackles love, loss, secrets, transparency and the Digital Age in his latest, Purity.Young Pip Tyler doesn’t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she’s saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother―her only family―is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she’ll ever have a normal life. It takes a seemingly chance encounter with two visitors from Germany to send Pip―and the reader―on a journey of discovery that ranges from Stasi-era East Berlin to a rainforest in Bolivia; and from the ancient war between the sexes to the present-day bewilderments of the Internet. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder―a daring 2015 book by one of the major writers of our time.

Franzen's ravenous intellect strides the globe, drawing us through a collection of cleverly connected plots infused with Major Issues of the Day. - The Washington Post

This dazzling tale of secrets and surveillance - The Guardian