* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction* Winner of the New York City Book Award*New York TimesBestseller* ASan Francisco ChronicleTop 10 Book of the Year* ANew York TimesNotable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017* ATimemagazine andUSA TodayTop 10 Novel of 2017* Winner of theBooklistTop of the List for Fiction* Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction* Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR,The Guardian,Vogue,Esquire,Kirkus Reviews,Philadelphia Inquirer,BookPage,Bustle,Southern Living, andSt. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Immensely satisfying... an old-fashioned page-turner, tweaked by this witty and sophisticated writer... Egan is masterly at displaying mastery... she works a formidable kind of magic." - Dwight Garner,The New York Times

The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize - winning author ofA Visit from the Goon Squad.

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man 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, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished.

With the atmosphere of a noir thriller, Egan's first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men.Manhattan Beachis a deft, dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world. It is a magnificent novel by the author ofA Visit from the Goon Squad, one of the great writers of our time.