Jennifer Egan

Working together for a record label, former punk rocker Bennie Salazar and the passionate Sasha hide illicit secrets from one another while interacting with a motley assortment of equally troubled people from 1970s San Francisco to the post-war future.

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Sanja Grbic

That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.

I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.

You kneel beside her, breathing the familiar smell of Sasha's sleep, whispering into her ear some mix of 

I will never leave you, I'll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life

, until the water pressing my shoulders and chest crushes me awake and I hear Sasha screaming into my face: 

Eli Alvah Huckabee

"Oh, sure," Lulu said. "BTs—blind teams—work especially well with older people. I mean"—she smiled—"people over thirty."

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