Franie and Zoui are the starlings of the Glass family - whose saga runs throughout Salinger's post-Catcher in the Rye work. However, they are also the most wounded members of the troubled family, like their four other siblings, due to their youth, fragile mental state, and the grief that haunts the Glass family since the suicide of their eldest son (the poet-saint Seymour). Franie is a student, while Zoui is an aspiring actor. Both of them, in search of spiritual and mental purity, wander among people, touching them but always remaining unbearably alone. Their consolation is the love that binds them and the wisdom that their departed older brother instilled in their lives.

Mirrors of the deepest psychological depths of the departing author, the protagonists of these stories have managed, with their complexity and boundless tenderness, to reflect an entire generation that sought redemption even when swimming in the depths of the most profound disillusionment.

A need and a trend that is evident in our days, making the reading of this masterpiece diptych even more meaningful and enjoyable.