Manhattan Beach

* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
* New York Times Bestseller
* A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017
* Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction
* Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Vogue, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, Philadelphia Inquirer, BookPage, Bustle, Southern Living, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Immensely satisfying...an old-fashioned page-turner, tweaked by this witty
and sophisticated writer...Egan is masterly at displaying mastery...she works
a formidable kind of magic." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times

The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from
the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression.
Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of
a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her
family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the
children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles.

Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had
always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous
and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win
the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief
and glamorous career as a Ziegfield folly, and her lovely, severely disabled
sister. At a night club, she chances to meet Styles, the man she visited with
her father before he vanished, and she begins to understand the complexity of
her father's life, the reasons he might have been murdered.

Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir
thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine and
the clash of classes in New York, Egan's first historical novel is a
masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative
moment in the lives of women and men, America and the world. Manhattan Beach
is a magnificent novel by one of the greatest writers of our time.

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***Jennifer Egan's latest novel THE CANDY HOUSE is coming April 2022, the
long-awaited sibling novel to A Visit from the Goon Squad***