Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1943
"In the opening pages of 'Manhattan Beach' — Jennifer Egan’s first novel since she won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 'A Visit From the Goon Squad' — an 11-year-old girl named Anna Kerrigan visits the titular stretch of Brooklyn shoreline on a winter day in the company of her father, Eddie, and an underworld figure named Dexter Styles. Though this encounter in 1934 is brief, and circumstances quickly send the three characters in disparate directions, readers will understand that their fates have just become inextricably intertwined. They may also understand, rightly, that this will turn out to be a more traditional novel than the raucous and inventive 'Goon Squad,' although the two books offer many of the same pleasures, including fine turns of phrase, a richly imagined environs and a restless investigation into human nature. The willing suspension of disbelief does not exist in a single form. In the context of different types of stories, the suspension of disbelief asks very different things of us, poses different problems and offers different rewards. ..."
NY Times: In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan Sets a Crime Story on the Waterfront
The Nation: Shadow Worlds
New Yorker: Jennifer Egan’s Travels Through Time
Guardian: Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan review – remarkable cinematic scope
The Atlantic: Jennifer Egan’s Surprising Swerve Into Historical Fiction
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