Manhattan Beach
A Novel
by Jennifer Egan
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Br...
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