National Bestseller, National Book Critics Circle Winner , With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption ""features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human"" The Chicago Tribune. Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. Pitch perfect.... Darkly, rippingly funny.... Egan possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart.