A Visit from the Goon Squad

I quite enjoyed this unusual story A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Difficult to describe what it is about. The story spans about 40 years when Bennie Salazar starts out in a band in the 1980s, then as life goes on he ends up as a music producer. There is a cast of many characters along the way who are somehow interconnected. Each chapter, the reader is not sure what this "sub-story" will be about, to whom it is connected and what time period it is. You need to concentrate to remember a connection with a character which may be some time back, how old is the character now, what is he or she doing. The story is not chronological, so you can be jumping back and forth, even into the future (which is most interesting). Weird, but worth sticking with. 4/5