NATIONAL BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNERWith music pulsing on every page, thisstartling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human (The Chicago Tribune).

One of theNew York Timess 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One ofThe Atlantics Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive.Sasha isthe passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs.

Pitch perfect.... Darkly, rippingly funny.... Egan possesses a satirists eye and a romance novelists heart.The New York Times Book Review