Franny and Zooey

• Jerome David Salinger

These stories, which were originally written for "New Yorker" magazine in the 1950s, were part of a series about the Glasses, a Jewish-Irish theatrical family. "Franny" relates to the youngest member of the family, who has a religious and nervous breakdown, and her brother Zachary, "Zooey", who rests at nothing in his attempts to restore her sanity.