![]() Jennifer Egan spoke with FRESH AIR producer Sam Briger. Anna thinks Styles may know what's happened to him. Her father was a bag man and has disappeared. She's also recently had a run-in with a mobster named Dexter Styles, a man she remembers visiting her father when she was a child during the Depression. But she's determined to become the yard's first female deep-sea diver, doing the dangerous work of underwater repairs. She has a boring job measuring tiny parts used in shipbuilding. ![]() Anna Kerrigan is one of hundreds of women working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as part of the war effort. The novel takes place during World War II. It's called "Manhattan Beach." Our book critic Maureen Corrigan included it in her top-10 list this year. ![]() ![]() But for her latest book, Egan chose to write a more traditional historical novel. The book won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her previous novel, "A Visit From The Goon Squad," included a 70-page chapter comprised only of PowerPoint slides. Author Jennifer Egan is not afraid of experimenting with her writing. ![]()
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