The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

The excruciating dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship in the 1970s . . . the effects of Kafka's fiction on a young man's protracted quest to lose his virginity . . . the web of connections between birdwatching, a collapsing marriage, and global warming: in this comic memoir of self-consciousness, the author of The Corrections tells the story of his life and of the strange country in which he's lived it.