Book Club: Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Mon, Aug 17
|Generations Senior Community Center
Led by Jaye Leopold A sweeping historical novel set in the Depression-era and wartime New York, where a young woman’s courage transforms her life on the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Time & Location
Aug 17, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Generations Senior Community Center, 103 Elm Street, Woodruff, WI 54568, USA
Guests
About the Event
Arrive by 12:00pm, bring a lunch or snack you enjoy as it will not be provided.
Book Club discussions start at 1:00pm in the lower level conference room and generally end by 2:30pm.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vogue, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA TODAY, and Time
A sweeping historical novel set in the Depression-era and wartime New York, where a young woman’s courage transforms her life on the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a Brooklyn gangster 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, America enters World War II and her father has disappeared. Anna…