Thirteen loosely connected stories tracking a music producer, his assistant, and the people in their orbit across forty years -- including one chapter written entirely in PowerPoint slides.
About This Book
With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune). One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive.
Who This Is For
Best for readers who want their assumptions challenged: books that raise questions without easy answers. This is a book that asks something of you. Dense, layered, and best read slowly. The pacing is balanced, time to breathe between moments that matter. If you want clear answers and a satisfying resolution, look elsewhere.
Best Read When
Best read when you're in the mood for something challenging and thought-provoking, and a read that's balanced and absorbing.
What It Explores
A Visit from the Goon Squad explores identity and the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be, loss and what remains after it, power and ambition and what they cost the people who pursue them, and friendship and what it genuinely asks of us.
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