A Visit from the Goon Squad

Bennie Salazar is a jaded music executive with a punk rock past. Sasha is his impulsive, enigmatic assistant, grappling with her own tangled history. In this inventive and deeply human novel, Jennifer Egan moves back and forth in time to trace the lives of Bennie, Sasha, and a cast of interconnected characters—each navigating ambition, memory, failure, and reinvention in a world where time is the ultimate “goon.”

With its bold structure and electric prose, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a dazzling exploration of how we change, how we endure, and how music threads through it all.