By his marriage and foresight he has managed to go mostly clean. The novel’s second major character is Anna’s father’s old employer, a dashing nightclub owner named Dexter Styles. From her window she can see the Navy’s divers in the river, and her soul leaps toward them - she wants to dive. She has a difficult life (her father is missing, her sister severely disabled) but she has a vision, too. The book (which has been long-listed for the National Book Award) is set for the most part in New York during World War II, where a young woman named Anna Kerrigan works as part of the war effort at the Brooklyn Naval Yard. Manhattan Beach (Scribner, 433 pp., ***½ out of four stars) picks up those themes - but in a traditional, occasionally even sentimental fashion.
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