Reading Manhattan Beach feels restorative rather than challenging at a moment when, as late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel put it, responding to the Las Vegas massacre, most of the time “it feels like someone has opened a window into hell.” Egan embraces some of historical fiction’s most familiar and comforting devices, from the spunky young heroine who insists on pursuing a trade usually reserved for men to the nostalgic invocation of a time when Americans felt themselves to be united in a worthy, essential cause.
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