The connections offer thematic context more than essential plot points and are a further layer of rich texture that enhance the reading pleasure for those already familiar with Egan’s world-building.Ĭhasing a clear arc and a neat resolution will only lead to frustration but embracing the spectrum offers enlightenment One such example is Bix Bouton, the tech entrepreneur who invents Own Your Unconscious, who has capitalised on his obsession with the internet in the 1990s that we briefly encountered in the original novel. It is not essential to have read Goon Squad in advance of embracing The Candy House but those who have will appreciate the intertextuality between both works and the recognition of characters met before. Interrogating our relationship with social media, gaming, alternate realities and, crucially, each other, The Candy House offers a bold, brilliant perspective on a society that feels perilously close to our own. Set in 2010 the narrative centres on the impact of a new technology, Own your Unconscious, that allows users to access all of their memories and engage in memory exchanges with others.Įgan excels at navigating an imaginative world where the interconnected lives of the characters are examined at points of intersection over a number of decades. The seventh novel from American author Jennifer Egan is presented as a sibling novel to her Pulitzer-Prize winning work A Visit from the Goon Squad.
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