She eventually lives up to the promise in the opening chapter and experiences a form of healing. Through the course of the novel, we come to learn about Sasha’s difficult childhood and self-destructive youth. At this point, Sasha is no longer working as an assistant to Bennie Salazar, although the fact that she still talks about her boss indicates that she still identifies with that job. In “Found Objects,” Sasha is on a first date when she takes a wallet from the purse of a woman in the restaurant restroom. This ending of the book showed the positive ends of the characters’ journeys and how far they came and how much they grew, giving closure not only to the characters, but to the readers of A Visit from the Goon Squad.The first storyline to emerge in the novel is that of Sasha, who struggles with, among other issues, kleptomania. It is significant because it provides closure for Sasha and Alex’s relationship that never even truly started, except for their one date that occurred years prior. In chapter thirteen, readers learn the fates of Bennie, Scotty, Lulu, and Alex. The characters have grown up, and in his personal growth, Alex forgot Sasha, and then remembered her on a night that was important to all of the characters who took part in it. This final chapter of A Visit from the Goon Squad ties everything together in a way that almost mirrors the beginning of the novel. Alex remembered Sasha’s name and asked Bennie about her, and they walked to where her apartment used to be, but she no longer lived there. Lulu came and got Scotty and when he finally performed Alex looked out and was mesmerized.

He found out that his job was to keep Scotty, who was to perform, from escaping, because Bennie was trying to force him to go on stage. They went to Bennie’s concert and Alex went back stage. Alex’s wife, Rebecca, found out that Lulu had been using it, and got angry, because she and Alex had been in agreement that children shouldn’t use them. Lulu told Cara-Ann that she had a ‘nyc dad’ (Alex) over text when Cara-Ann had her dad’s phone. The scene changes and Alex is talking to Bennie’s assistant, Lulu. They discuss Scotty Hausman and his singing. Alex tries to remember the girl who he heard of Bennie from, but remembers nothing except that they had gone on a date and something had happened to a wallet (the girl was Sasha and she had stolen a woman’s wallet). Chapter 13 opens with Bennie and Alex sitting together, while their wives were in the kitchen, and their baby daughters on the carpet.

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