![]() That makes him a P.K., or preacher’s kid, a famously fraught identity that some people navigate by striving to be good enough to live up to the accompanying expectations, and others by becoming conspicuously, defiantly bad. The drug dealer is Perry, the fifteen-year-old son of Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of the First Reformed Church of New Prospect, Illinois. This is not the setup to a joke it is the setup to a pivotal scene in “ Crossroads,” Jonathan Franzen’s new novel. ![]() ![]() A rabbi, a preacher, and a drug dealer walk into a Christmas party. ![]()
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