![]() ![]() The structure of Goon Squad reminds me in many ways of Joan Silber’s Ideas of Heaven, a lovely collection of six stories in which a minor character in one story becomes the narrator of the next. In short, Egan’s book is a terrific feat of ventriloquism, composed of 13 short stories that seesaw back and forth through time and interconnect multiple characters, particularly the lives of a music producer named Bennie and his assistant, Sasha.īut it’s so much more than my lame synopsisand more than a sum of diverse narrators and characters. (How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?) ![]() There’s even a creepy dictator who wears a ridiculous hat to soften his image. An art professor searches for a wayward niece in Naples a closeted gay man chews up some ecstasy and jumps into the East River a kid on safari with his record-producer-dad watches a lioness gnaw on the face of a bassist. A Visit From the Goon Squad is about all sorts of people in all sorts of places. ![]()
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