In the novel’s first story, “Found Objects,” Sasha meets with her therapist, Coz, with whom she is working to overcome an addiction to stealing. Several characters appear in more than one story, and through the ways in which they appear at different points in time, their narratives become clear. The novel is also split into two parts-A and B-which echoes the two sides of an album. Instead, they leap through time, showing slices of different time periods occurring between the late 1970s and the 2020s.
The stories, as they appear in the novel, do not follow a traditional chronology. Each chapter stands as a self-contained story, but as a whole, the individual episodes create connections that form a cohesive narrative. Turn up the music, skip the college reunion and curl up with The Goon Squad instead.A Visit from the Goon Squad is unconventional in the way its narrative unfolds. triumph of technical bravado and tender sympathy. "If Egan is our reward for living through the self-conscious gimmicks and ironic claptrap of postmodernism, then it was all worthwhile. Egan's expert flaying of human foibles has the compulsive allure of poking at a sore tooth: excruciating but exhilarating too." Then expect it to lodge in your cranium and your breastbone a good long while." Expect to inhale Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad. Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered
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