An international bestseller & the novel of the year ' Freedom' is an epic of contemporary love & marriage. This is the story of the Berglunds their son Joey their daughter Jessica & their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use & abuse our freedom; about the beginning & ending of love; teenage lust; the unexpectedness of adult life; why we compete with our friends; how we betray those closest to us; & why things almost never work out as they 'should'. It is a story about the human heart & what it leads us to do to ourselves & each other.