The Invisible Circus - by Jennifer Egan (Paperback)

The highly acclaimed debut novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Good Squad follows two sisters in the 1970s--one lost, one seeking--on a trip that takes the reader through stunning emotional terrain.

Phoebe O'Connor, age eighteen, in 1978, is obsessed with the memory and death of her older sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970.

In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe, a quest which yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love, and Faith's lost generation.

This spellbinding novel introduced Egan's remarkable ability to tie suspense with deeply insightful characters and the nuances of emotion.