Perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation (New York Times), Franny and Zooey collects two works of fiction about the Glass family originally published in The New Yorker. J. D. Salinger’s masterful storytelling delves into the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood, as captured in these two halves of a novel. “Everything everybody does is so— I don’t know— not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and–sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much only in a different way.” A gleaming example of wit, precision, and poignancy, Franny and Zooey remains one of America’s most beloved works. The novel explores the complexities of family dynamics and the search for identity through the eyes of its two central characters, Franny and Zooey Glass.