Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. 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. 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. “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 * Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Vogue, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, Philadelphia Inquirer, BookPage, Bustle, Southern Living, and St. * Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction * A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017 * Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
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