The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
Bix Bouton's company Mandala releases a technology that lets people externalise their own memories and, in exchange, enter everyone else's. Thirteen linked stories follow the people who take the offer and the ones who refuse, including one told in emails and one first published as a sequence of tweets in 2012. It is a sequel to A Visit from the Goon Squad, and Scribner published it on 5 April 2022.
Why you should read this
A companion novel to Egan's earlier, prize-winning book about the same extended world, reusing its linked-chapter structure and rotating narrators but centered this time on a technology that lets people access and trade their own memories. Best for readers who enjoy structural puzzles as much as character work.
- Field
- Literature
- Form
- Fiction
- Published
- 2022
- Themes
- ContemporaryWesternFiction
