Junesical: “A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan

How do we make June more musical? Maybe by reading “A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan?

Critically acclaimed hit novel from 2011 “A Visit from the Goon Squad” is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. It is neither a novel nor a collection of short stories, but something in between: a series of chapters featuring interlocking characters at different points in their lives, whose individual voices combine to a create a symphonic work that uses its interconnected form to explore ideas about human interconnectedness. Thoroughly preoccupied by the effects of technology on our lives and culture, from the consequences for music of the digital revolution to the way in which technology is transforming our language.