A Visit from the Goon Squad

Chosen as a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010 and heaped with praise and outstanding reviews in the UK, this is a brilliantly entertaining novel about memory, time, art and how humans connect at every level. It circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs.