A review by earlyandalone
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

4.0

I loved the first half of this novel, primarily the parts about Anna's adolescence and her father's involvement in the shadowy underworld of the Irish crime syndicate in New York City during the Depression. I was also interested in Anna's decision to become the first female diver in the Brooklyn Naval Yard during WWII. But then....the novel kind of petered out for me. There were too many technical details and not quite enough feeling toward the end, especially regarding the fate of Dexter Styles.