Franny Glass and Lane Coutell are the perfect campus couple: beautiful, intelligent, and with their whole lives ahead of them. But one weekend, while Franny is visiting, something unexpected happens during the excitement of the big Yale game, and tensions begin to rise. Are they really as perfect a couple as they seem?

Franny's older brother is Zooey. They come from a demanding but very eccentric family: all seven Glass siblings are former child stars, each in their own strange, charming, and wounded way. As Franny's anxiety escalates into a complete breakdown, Zooey is the only one who might be able to save her.

A novel woven from two interconnected stories, it brilliantly captures the emotional burdens and traumas of growing up through Franny and Zooey. It is a shining example of the wit, precision, and poignancy that have made J.D. Salinger one of America's most beloved authors.