T. Jefferson Parker, Jennifer Egan top new must-reads

 
Seven years after nabbing a Pulitzer for “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” novelist Jennifer Egan leaves experimental fiction behind to journey to World War II-era New York City with “Manhattan Beach,” an emotional story of a young woman working in a naval yard, who confronts a mobster to find the truth behind her father’s disappearance.In “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,” National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates reignites a fir