Purity, by Jonathan Franzen - book review: Ventriloquist flies the nest

Jonathan Franzen has always been one for capturing the zeitgeist, although as it took him six years to write his latest novel Purity, there’s no guarantee that it will always be the current one. In his fifth novel, Purity Tyler, aka Pip, lives in a squat in Oakland with a group of Occupy activists. In her bid to unearth the identity of her absent father, she flies to Bolivia to join The Sunlight Project, a group of hacktivist leakers (see what I mean?).