The corrections / Franzen, Jonathan

After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun, but the members of her dysfunctional family make it difficult.

In this satirical look at the American family, a Midwestern mother named Enid, whose husband is losing his mind to Parkinson's disease and whose grown, self-destructive children are facing their own problems, attempts to arrange a happy family Christmas.

After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun, but the members of her dysfunctional family make it difficult.