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Manhattan beach novel5/30/2023 Meanwhile the now 19-year-old Anna is working sorting machine parts at the Brooklyn Navy Yards. Eddie is gone, having disappeared five years earlier. The question of what took place that day is thrown into stark relief in the novel's second part, which jumps forward to 1942. Yet he is eager to move on, partly because he wants to regain some semblance of his old life, partly because he requires money to pay for a special wheelchair for Anna's sister, the profoundly disabled Lydia. It's a job Eddie excels at, largely due to his easy charm. Once a stockbroker, Eddie has fallen on hard times, and is working as a bagman for the mobster who runs the waterfront. The purpose of the visit remains unclear, but as the opening chapters unfurl pieces begin to fall into place for the reader. Twelve year-old Anna Kerrigan has accompanied her father, Eddie, to the home of gangster Dexter Styles.
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