![]() ![]() ![]() At the same time, it doesn’t feel like some sort of brand new genre or interesting fusion of genres (although I did facetiously describe it at one point to a friend as kind of a mix of The Godfather and Little Women – but that’s not really accurate or helpful). I had a hell of a time with that for this review because the book seems unsure of what it wants to BE. It’s got elements of a whole bunch of things – mystery, family, organized crime, coming-of-age, character study, trying-to-get-into-a-particularly-difficult-job-despite-institutional-prejudices-and-animosity-from-others, noir, adventure – but it never really settles on being any of them. ![]() The overriding emotion I felt while reading it was “meh.”Īt the opening of a review, I usually try to describe a book in a sentence or two in an effort to answer the proverbial “What’s it about?” question. ![]() A whole bunch of fancy-pants critics really like it. It is a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Manhattan Beach by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan is a historical Literary Fiction novel. He’d chanced upon his favorite hour: a premonition of dawn without any visible sign of it. ![]()
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