Franny and Zooey

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By J. D. Salinger

Two connected stories about the youngest of the Glass children. In the first, Franny arrives for a football weekend at her boyfriend’s college, cannot eat, and has a breakdown in a restaurant over a small green book about a pilgrim’s prayer.

In the second, she is back at home on the sofa in her parents’ apartment, and her brother Zooey argues with her about it for the length of an afternoon, first through a bathroom door and then face to face. About religion, ego, and what to do with talent you did not ask for.

First published 1961