I have had Jennifer Egan's latest book, Manhattan Beach, on hold from the library since this spring and it finally arrived a week ago. I loved several of her previous books: A Visit from the Goon Squad, Look at Me and The Keep. Egan has a way of opening up her characters, developing them into complicated, but realistic people.Though set during the first world war, Manhattan Beach didn't rely on the usual tropes of battle and pain. Instead it showcased a father and daughter as they both are navigate how to survive when their worlds collapse.
As a child Anna adored her father, accompanying him as he visited men for his union job. But when her father suddenly disappears, Anna is left adrift. As an adult she gets sucked into the underworld her father disappeared into, looking for answers to her father's disappearance and discovering what local nightclub owner, Dexter Styles, knows.
This beautifully-written book was a fascinating story about at a headstrong women determined to succeed and the machinations of a desperate man determined to provide for his family––at any cost.
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