I just finished this book and loved it. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
It's a collection of related short stories (so it's perfect for someone like me with a short attention span) about people who work in the record industry. Like, in the first story you meet A and it mentions her boss, B. Then the second story goes on to tell you a little more about B and mentions someone named C. The third story is about C and how he knows B. Eventually one of the stories mention A again. It's amazing, amazing, amazing and Jennifer Egan is an awesome writer. All of the stories are told in different ways, in different voices. Some are third-person all knowing, some are first-person... one is told through a power-point presentation. This isn't done to be gimmicky; it just happens to be the best way to tell each story.
Read it! I was hooked by the third story.
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