Manhattan Beach

The author of "A Visit From The Goon Squad" sets her latest novel in wartime Brooklyn, with one of the first female divers working to repair boats used in the war effort running into one her disappeared father's associates - an encounter that enlightens her to the complexities of her father's situation, and his probable fate.

Jennifer Egan is the author of six previous books of fiction: Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn.