First, Phoebe's father died a tragedy which sent her older sister, Faith – always the show-off, performing with reckless abandon to entertain her doting dad – further down a self-destructive path, and pursuing Sixties' radicalism to its most dangerously experimental extremes. We're in San Francisco in 1978, with a lop-sided family.
It is, frankly, hard to believe it is a debut novel. Fellow Goon fans won't be disappointed: 1995's The Invisible Circus, which has been re-released following this surge of interest in the American author, is just as insightful, taut, compelling and well written. As one of many readers who were captivated by Jennifer Egan's last book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad, I went scurrying back to her earlier novels, hungry for more.
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