Jennifer Egan
Born: 01-01-1962
Jennifer Egan is an acclaimed American novelist and short story writer, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad." Born in Chicago in 1962, she grew up in San Francisco and studied at the University of Pennsylvania and St John's College, Cambridge. Egan's work often explores themes of technology, identity, and time, earning her numerous accolades and a prominent place in contemporary literature.
Book summaries for books written by Jennifer Egan
Quotes
I can’t help but think how the world is full of women who would like to go home but can’t. Because they’re not allowed to, or because they’re afraid to.
Life is a choice. You can live in the world you were born into, or you can create a new one.
There was something about the sense of possibility and the absence of rules that was intoxicating.
No one could protect you from the hard things of the world.
She was growing into a woman who could make her own choices.
A person could be two things at once, or even many.
It was a way of saying: I’m not afraid of the dark. I’m not afraid of the unknown.
It’s the hardest thing to admit, when you’re not where you want to be.
She had the sense that the world was larger than she’d ever known.
What she was seeing was a different kind of love, a love of people who were not related, who made their own families.
In the absence of rules, people made their own.
The sea was a place of refuge, a giant field of freedom and possibility.