Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Jennifer Egan has certainly made a name for herself in the book world!
Probably most known for her book A Visit from the Goon Squad, Egan doesn’t play by typical novel rules: she likes to incorporate all sorts of genres and storytelling tricks. From chapters set up as PowerPoints, chapters in tweets and texts, disjointed storylines, and multiple points of view, Egan uses it all to pull the reader in.
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“Model Charlotte Swenson returns to Manhattan after recovering from a devastating car accident in her Illinois hometown. She finds that she can’t restart her career and floats invisibly through the New York fashion world.”
“Two decades after taking part in a childhood prank whose devastating repercussions changed their lives forever, two cousins are reunited to work on the renovation of a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a remote, eerie site profoundly influenced by its bloody past, where the two are cut off from the outside world and doomed to reenact the horrific event from their past.”
A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010)
“Working side-by-side for a record label, former punk rocker Bennie Salazar and the passionate Sasha hide illicit secrets from one another while interacting with a motley assortment of equally troubled people from 1970s San Francisco to the post-war future.”
“Years after she is placed in the hands of a stranger vital to her family’s survival, Anna takes a job at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during the war while meeting with the man who helped them and learning important truths about her father’s disappearance.”
“Told through lives of multiple characters, this electrifying, deeply moving novel, spanning 10 years, follows “Own Your Unconscious,” a new technology that allows access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others.”
-Linnea
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