Real Men Read – “Manhattan Beach” by Jennifer Egan

Thursday, February 25, 2021
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

About the Book

Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vogue, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA TODAY, and Time.

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men.

‎Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished..

About the author

Jennifer Egan is the author of six books of fiction including Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

About the event

Everyone, age 6 or older, who attends library programs are required to wear masks.
Please note any accommodation requests in the Special Needs section of the registration form.

All those not arriving together must maintain a 6-foot social distance.

If Campbell County is RED on the Kentucky Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 Dashboard, all in-person programs will be canceled and those registered will be offered the online option.

This program will take place outside our current hours of operation. For those attending in-person, a staff member will allow you entrance to the building.

If you have any questions, please contact Dave Anderson at danderson@cc-pl.org

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