A monthly book group where you can meet new people, sip a warm drink, and have great discussions. This month we're reading A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan:

"Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Kenya.

A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to PowerPoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both—and escape the merciless progress of time—in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers." 

-From the publisher

This book is available in print and audiobook. A limited number of print copies are available at the Information Desk on the lower level of the library. Please call 203-272-2245 x4 to reserve your copy. Downloadable eBook and eAudiobook versions are available to Cheshire residents through Libby.

Registration is required.