Saturday
April 29th
2-3pm
McNally Jackson Rockefeller Center
Acclaimed author Jennifer Egan joins us at McNally Jackson for an in-store signing of her recent titles to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day 2023.
The Candy House, A Visit from the Goon Squad, and Manhattan Beach will be available to purchase at the store on the day of the signing.
Praise for The Candy House...
"The Candy House is really an incredible feat... astonishing, even a little bewildering! Jenny is shockingly underrated. She should have the kind of fawning sycophants that dudes like Franzen and Denis Johnson do. Let the cult begin herewith!"
—James Hannaham, New York Times Book Review
“A brilliant demonstration of the unquantifiable pleasures of great fiction.”
—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
Praise for A Visit from the Goon Squad...
“A rich and unforgettable novel about decay and endurance, about individuals in a world as it changes around them. . . . [Egan] is one of the most talented writers today.”
—The New York Review of Books
“It ends in the same place it starts, except that everything has changes, including you, the reader.”
—The New Republic
Praise for Manhattan Beach...
"A bounteous miracle that makes you feel that past time, and our time, differently; everything becomes freshly energized, infused with humanity, vital, sad, and full of importance. To see the world through Egan’s eyes is to be moved, through language, to new adoration of the world. I don’t know a better writer working today. There is a generosity in her prose that is vastly enlivening to its reader and brings about that beautiful effect fiction sometimes causes: more, and better-grounded, fondness for reality, just as it is."
—George Saunders
“Intricately patterned and visionary . . . .Manhattan Beach . . . plunges into the past to discover what lies beneath the surface of our own world.”
—The Atlantic
JENNIFER EGAN is the author of several novels and a short story collection. Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read. Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was recently named one of the best books of the decade by Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly. Her new novel, The Candy House, a companion to A Visit From the Goon Squad, was named one of the New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2022 and one of President Obama’s favorite reads of the year. She recently completed a term as President of PEN America.
Photo: Jennifer Egan © Pieter M. van Hattem