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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