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punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate troubled young woman he employs.
Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts along with the inner lives of a host of
other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page A Visit
from the Goon Squad is a startling exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.