![]() She’s asleep in her narrow bed, her burned red hair dark against the sheets. American writer Jennifer Egan is the author of A Visit From The Goon Squad, The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus, and the story collection Emerald City. Her harp in one corner with its small wood stool. You slip through Sasha’s open window, floating over the sill lined with artifacts from her travels: a white seashell, a small gold pagoda, a pair of red dice. This loose sequel however, labors with wrought exposition via interconnecting stories of a world of retained, accessible, and commercialized memories. to manage the current alone while you withdraw to the broader landscape, the water and buildings and streets, the avenues like endless hallways, your dorm full of sleeping students, the air thick with their communal breath. Jennifer Egan is a spectacularly good and imaginative fiction writer, and 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' earned its accolades back in 2010. “As you flail, knowing you’re not supposed to panic – panicking will drain your strength – your mind pulls away as it does so easily, so often, without your even noticing sometimes, leaving Robert Freeman Jr. ![]()
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