Manhattan Beach by Jennifer EganMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The most notable things about this book is the author - Jennifer Egan is so versatile, between A Visit from the Goon Squad and Look at Me, I was not expecting a straightforward historical novel, which this is. This was a cool story - it was about a young woman who begins to work at the Naval Yard in NYC during WWII. This part of the story is interwoven with her childhood, where her beloved father has some shady connections to mysterious men. It's not until the end of the book where the stories meet, but both narratives are fascinating, both with moving plots and with great descriptions of time and place.
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