In Chapter 2, Anna and Eddie returned home. When Anna and Eddie drove home together, Eddie explained that Dexter was a nightclub owner – confirming Anna’s educated guess that the man “wasn’t in stocks” (11). Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father. Were going to see the sea, Anna whispered. Judging from the house’s size and décor, and the caliber of Tabatha’s toys, Anna determined the Styles family to be much wealthier than her own. The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. While her father and Dexter met, Anna played with Dexter’s eight-year-old daughter, Tabatha, while Tabatha’s younger twin brothers Philip and John-Martin played nearby. Twelve-year-old Anna Kerrigan accompanied her father – Eddie, a labor union member – to his business appointment (the nature of which Anna did not comprehend) with a man named Dexter Styles, in Brooklyn’s Manhattan Beach neighborhood. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. The first chapter of Jennifer Egan’s novel opens in New York City, five years after the 1929 American stock market crash. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages.
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