JENNIFER EGAN reading/signing A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD August 6, 2010

Expect to inhale Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad. Then expect it to lodge in your cranium and your breastbone a good long while. I expect this brilliant, inventive novel to become enshrined. Such rash speculation is foolish, I know—we live amid a plague of bloated praise. But A Visit From the Goon Squad is emboldening. It cracks the world open afresh. Would that Marcel Proust could receive A Visit From the Goon Squad. It would blow his considerable mind. “Pitch perfect. Shape shifting. Is there anything Egan can’t do?" The New York Times. "A profound and glorious exploration of the fullness and complexity of the human condition. An extraordinary new work of fiction.” The New York Press. "A triumph of technical bravado and tender sympathy“ The Washington Post. "Clever. Edgy. Groundbreaking." The Chicago Tribune. “It may be the smartest book you can get your hands on this summer.” The Los Angeles Times. Read last Sunday's front page NY Times rave for A Visit from the Goon Squad. FREE! Comp wine. The Keep (her Escherian last book and one of my favorite modern novels) and A Visit from the Goon Squad will both be available for purchase at the event. NOT TO BE MISSED!!