PBN Reading Challenge 2023 Midyear Check-in
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The Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Benny Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Although Benny and Sasha never discover each other's past, the reader does in intimate detail. The secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs over many years in low cowls as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Kenya. A book about the interplay of time and music about the visit from the Goon Squad set inexorably into motion by even most passing conjunction of our faiths.
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