A Visit from the Goon Squad

Any book with a chapter discussing pauses in popular songs (with The Four Tops' “Bernadette” being a particularly great one) is doing something right. Egan is a very skilled writer, who says more in a paragraph than other writers say in a chapter. Though her characters were really well drawn, I didn't particularly like any of them. So while I savored every page, it felt like something was missing.