A funny poignant snapshot of young adulthood from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the Rye Franny Glass & Lane Coutell are the perfect campus couple beautiful intelligent their whole lives ahead of them But one weekend when Franny is visiting amid the excitement of the big Yale game something goes wrong & tensions begin to surface Are they really such a perfect match after all? Franny's older brother is Zooey They come from a sophisticated yet highly eccentric family all seven Glass siblings are former child stars all strange & enchanting & damaged in their own way & when Franny's anxiety spirals into a full-blown breakdown Zooey is the only one who might be able to save her A novel in two intertwining stories Franny & Zooey brilliantly captures the emotional strains & traumas of entering adulthood It is a gleaming example of the wit precision & poignancy that have made JD Salinger one of the most beloved American novelists of the twentieth century