Jennifer Egan won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Published in 2010, the novel is a linked collection of stories centered on music executive Bennie Salazar and his assistant Sasha. Its characters move through the music business and related cultural worlds across several decades, with their lives intersecting in unexpected ways.
Egan experiments with structure and voice. One chapter is presented as a PowerPoint-style slide presentation, while others use first person, third person, or unusual perspectives. This formal variety reflects the novel's interest in memory, technology, aging, fame, and the ways people construct stories about themselves.
The book won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Its title refers to time as a force that eventually overtakes everyone, rather than simply naming a musical group. The novel is often discussed as both literary fiction and a critique of the entertainment industry.