#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR .Winner of the John Gardner Fiction Award.A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist ** Freedom, by New York Times- bestselling author Jonathan Franzen, the author of Crossroads , is a masterly novel of contemporary love and marriage, a brilliant charting of the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, and the heavy weight of empire**. Patty and Walter Berglund were the pioneers of old St. Paul-the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant