A review by cdlindwall
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
5.0
Jennifer Egan is so damn talented, it's absurd. Manhattan Beach is a story about WWII NYC, but it's also about badass women and a broken family and organized crime and mourning. The amount of historical research that went into this book is remarkable, and makes the story so textured/real.
Granted, I have an almost endless capacity for historical stories about NYC. (They're romantic. They just are.) It was particularly moving to read this in the afternoon, having lived in a couple of the neighborhoods as Anna does in the story, and to then go on my evening runs to the Brooklyn Navy Yard where she dives. MAN. You done it again, Egan.
Granted, I have an almost endless capacity for historical stories about NYC. (They're romantic. They just are.) It was particularly moving to read this in the afternoon, having lived in a couple of the neighborhoods as Anna does in the story, and to then go on my evening runs to the Brooklyn Navy Yard where she dives. MAN. You done it again, Egan.