This "novel of interconnected lives at the fringes of the music industry" (Publishers Weekly) has garnered wide praise from the PEN/Faulkner Award to O, The Oprah Magazine and People. From the publisher: Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption."

The story opens with Anna Kerrigan, twelve years old, accompanying her father to visit an important man on Brooklyn's Manhattan Beach. As a teen, her father disappears without a trace. Years later, her path again crosses with this man, a successful (and shady) nightclub owner, and she realizes he may be connected to her father's mysterious disappearance. If you've read The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress, the story itself feels similar to me—a man vanishes without a trace, in 1930ish New York City—but the way it's told is completely different.