The Candy House
Jennifer Egan · 2022
A companion novel to *A Visit from the Goon Squad*. In a near future where a technology allows people to externalize their memories, Egan explores consciousness, privacy, and connection with the same structural inventiveness that won her the Pulitzer. A major novelist at full power.
The case against
Without Goon Squad's cast list in working memory you will spend chapters wondering who these people are; the book quietly assumes you remember Bennie, Sasha, and their orbiting children. The formal stunts return too (a chapter in spy-handbook directives, one in emails), now feeling like obligations of brand. And the memory-extraction tech stays a premise, never a built world.
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