BOOKS
Jan 10, 2020
2 minutes
By TIME staff
FICTION
A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD JENNIFER EGAN 2010
Egan’s mold-breaking structure, which switches between different characters with each chapter, has become a favorite trick of modern novelists—but the book also captures something timeless: how aging can wreak havoc on connection.
MY BRILLIANT FRIEND ELENA FERRANTE 2011
Two girls bond when one of them drops the other’s beloved doll down a shaft, the other follows suit and they try to retrieve them. So begins
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