Join Jennifer Egan—author of A Visit from the Goon Squad—in conversation at the Central Library in Los Angeles. Marisa Silver will join the discussion on Egan’s fantastic new novel Manhattan Beach, a World-War-II-era mystery set among the toilers at the Naval Yard in Brooklyn, in gangland Manhattan, and on merchant ships halfway around the world.

 

JENNIFER EGAN, Thursday, October 19, at 7:30 pm.

CENTRAL LIBRARY, 630 West 5th Street, downtown Los Angeles.

lfla.org/event/manhattan-beach-novel-wwii-new-york/

See: Suzanne Fox, “Jennifer Egan in the City That Never Sleeps,” Publishers Weekly, September 15, 2017:

publishersweekly.com-jennifer-egan-in-the-city-that-never-sleeps.html

Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach (New York: Scribner, 2017). Image credit: Simon & Schuster.