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Many of Jonathan Franzen’s novels take place in the Midwest, including “Freedom,” which follows the Berglund family in Minnesota’s capital city. Where do they live?

  • A Duluth
  • B Minneapolis
  • C St. Cloud
  • D St. Paul
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From the 2010 review by Sam Tanenhaus:

“Freedom” is a still richer and deeper work — less glittering on its surface but more confident in its method. This time the social history has been pushed forward, from the Clinton to the Bush years — and the generational clock has been wound forward, too. There is, again, a nuclear family, though the hopeful aspirants are not children but parents. They are the Berglunds, “young pioneers” who renovate a Victorian in Ramsey Hill, a neighborhood of decayed mansions in St. Paul (Franzen assuredly knows that F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up there, on Summit Avenue; the street is mentioned in the opening paragraph), and then float upward on drafts of unassailable virtue.

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