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![]() When Pip meets a nice boy in a coffee shop, a guy who seems to like her, she leaves him alone in her bedroom in a state of some sexual arousal and stays away for more than an hour while she fills in a questionnaire for a friend downstairs. Pip’s general situation in a dead-end job is not helped by her obsession with a married man who lives with his wife in the same house in Oakland as Pip and some others. ![]() Pip is burdened by college debt, a lack of direction and a sharp intelligence she is also burdened by her mother, who has brought Pip up alone in a tiny cabin in the Santa Cruz Mountains and now works at the checkout in a market. ![]() At the center of Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, “Purity,” is a young college graduate called Pip, whose full first name, bestowed by her not-quite-sane mother, is Purity. ![]()
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