Manhattan Beach Steve Wide to India's sacred banyan tree

to India's sacred banyan tree

and the mysterious pianist Ronnie Clark (Herbie Hancock under a disguised name)

and a dark humour was added to his baritone

a taboo under Islam

in Mexico he cannot get beyond a drug-induced erotic fantasy on a nudist beach

Manhattan Beach Steve Wide to India's sacred banyan treeThe long awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD, MANHATTAN BEACH opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles.