![]() ![]() ![]() The new book starts from the point of view of a tech mogul, Bix, who designed a form of collective memory that can be accessed publicly so that no event or emotion is ever lost. That’s one of these rules I have, that the reader come to know everything I know.” “It felt weird to know things the reader didn’t. “There were characters whose lives and futures I knew, but that I couldn’t put into ,” she says, calling from California. “Goon Squad never really ended for me,” says Egan over Zoom. Yet the world of Candy House has a completely different feel from Goon Squad: celebratory, gleaming, and futuristic, as opposed to the latter’s shady watering holes and bleakly lived-in hotel bathrooms. In the new novel, she borrows characters and storylines from the latter, and structures it similarly, with each chapter acting as a standalone story within a shared universe. Last month, author Jennifer Egan released her seventh book, The Candy House, a sequel of sorts to 2010’s runaway bestseller, A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. ![]()
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