A Visit from the Goon Squad

A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) by Jennifer Egan. In Goon Squad, Egan tells a series of linked narratives, each sharing a character or characters with at least one other story in the book. Some of the stories are interesting, some not so much. Egan pulls off a showy feat by telling the narratives in a wide variety of styles and points of view. If the book has a problem for me, it is that it has too many characters, and it's just too hard to keep track of them all. The title refers, I think, to the book's mention, a few times, that time is a goon. What makes time a goon I'm not sure, but that's what the book says. Grade: B