“Corrections” is a book above all about family, reflecting modern America in all its complexity. It’s a string of scandals that methodically kill the typical American family. It’s a crazy West and an unpredictable post-Soviet East. It’s a virtual world of the Internet infected by a virus and a real sick world that couldn’t withstand the American infection. Life without embellishment. Collisions and feelings—familiar and understandable to almost everyone. No accident, Franzen’s novel immediately became a bestseller in the US and conquered Europe.