Summer Love

It is hard to put into a book into words when you finish it, and realize you might just have found a new favorite book. I had this experience upon finishing the most recent winner of the Pulitzer, A Visit From the Goon Squad. It took me a long time to come back to this book and actually start reading it. I heard nothing but amazing things. Critics loved it. Readers loved it. Obviously the judges over at Pulitzer head-quarters loved it. (is there a Pulitzer head-quarters? there has to be right?) So it was kind of like when you're mom asks you to do something over and over again. The more I heard about it, the less I wanted to do it. Then finally, due to one of our awesome book clubs, I sat down with the book, and immediately fell in love.

I thought to myself, "Why did I wait so long?" So now it's your turn. Get yourself a copy and you might just fall in love.

A Visit from the Goon Squad By Egan, Jennifer 2011-03 - Anchor Books 9780307477477 Check the Library's Catalog2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: Fiction 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 startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption. …More