Book 46 "A visit from the goon squad"

A visit from the goon squad

By

Jennifer Egan

Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a starting, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.

My Take

I read this book because every award last year seemed to go the way of the 'Goon Squad' Here is just a short list, New York Times Book Review Best Book, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, And landed on "Best Book of the Year" lists on Oprah, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Minneapolis Star Tribune, NPR's On Point, Newsday, People, Publishers Weekly, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, Time, Washington Post, and the Pulitzer Prize.

So, I set my course on reading Jennifer Egan's eventual classic. The book bounced around a little (almost too much for my liking) However, Egan was genius in the story line and the ending was fantastic. Mix that with every award under the sun and you can't go wrong!!