![]() ![]() ![]() Rhea sees Jocelyn perform oral sex on Lou, “while Lou mashes Jocelyn’s head against himself again and again, so I don’t know how she can breathe, until it starts to seem like she’s not even Jocelyn, but some kind of animal or machine that can’t be broken” (53). Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers. At the show, Lou takes a professional interest in Bennie. Book Summary A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. Lou takes Rhea and Jocelyn out for dinner before the gig he gives them cocaine and puts an arm around each of them, and “like that, we’re Lou’s girls” (50). Jocelyn convinces Lou to come and see the band. Bennie arranges for the band to play at Mabuhay Gardens. As Jocelyn-who is Rhea’s best friend-spends more time with Lou, Rhea tries to befriend Alice, but Alice distrusts her. Rhea feels that nobody loves her because her freckles make her undesirable. Rhea is in love with Bennie, but Bennie is in love with Alice, who is in love with Scotty, and Scotty is most interested in Jocelyn, who is in love with a music executive named Lou Kline. The teenager Rhea belongs to a group of kids who form a punk band, currently called The Flaming Dildos. ![]()
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