January’s book selection is A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
The novel won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2011.
Mustich writes: “What kind of novel would Marcel Proust have written if he’d listened to the Rolling Stones instead of Beethoven’s late quartets? The answer might well be something very much like A Visit from the Goon Squad.”
This topic will open for discussion on February 1, 2026.