PositiveLos Angeles Review of Books\"[Franzen\'s] willingness to show some vulnerability is refreshing ... Franzen retains an earnest side ... Franzen’s laid-back reporting is so good that by the end of The End I was searching Google for guidebooks on birds in my area ... [Franzen is] so focused on what’s in people’s hearts — on their nature-loving bona fides — that he largely ignores the systems that perpetuate climate injustice. Loving nature, as Franzen and so many others claim to, is sort of like saying you are not racist or have lots of black friends. It does little to fix a problem like structurally racist housing policy.\
