Yiyun Li’s Wednesday’s Child distills grief and resilience into crystalline, intimate stories; Michael Cunningham’s Day captures a single household across three distinct moments in time, revealing how love and longing shift with the years; and Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads dives deep into a Midwestern family reckoning with faith, desire, and moral fracture. Together, these novels offer a rich, compassionate portrait of how we navigate one another—and ourselves—through the tender, turbulent seasons of being human.
Yiyun Li’s Wednesday’s Child distills grief and resilience into crystalline, intimate stories; Michael Cunningham’s Day captures a single household across three distinct moments in time, revealing how love and longing shift with the years; and Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads dives deep into a Midwestern family reckoning with faith, desire, and moral fracture. Together, these novels offer a rich, compassionate portrait of how we navigate one another—and ourselves—through the tender, turbulent seasons of being human.