A Visit from the Goon Squad

Summary

Through thirteen interlocking chapters that leap across decades and continents, the novel tracks a constellation of characters orbiting the music industry from punk-era San Francisco to a near-future New York. Egan experiments with form throughout, including a chapter rendered as a child's PowerPoint slideshow, while probing how time and technology reshape ambition and intimacy. The book became a defining example of formally adventurous twenty-first-century fiction.