5/19/2023 0 Comments The candy house book review![]() ![]() Like A Visit from the Goon Squad, which features a chapter entirely in PowerPoint, The Candy House dabbles in a range of narrative styles, from first-person plural to emails to a spy manual. Some people, called “eluders,” opt out, taking extraordinary measures to drop off the grid. As buy-in accelerates, society begins to splinter, privacy edges toward obsolescence, and corporations employ “counters” to mine users’ digital data. The Candy House, out now from Scribner, opens with tech mogul Bix Bouton, inventor of the revolutionary new technology “Own Your Unconscious,” which allows users to upload their memories to the cloud and, in turn, access everyone else’s. In The Candy House, the much-anticipated “sibling novel” to 2010’s Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan imagines a future that lies just beyond our peripheral vision, where, as exciting new technology beckons, there is always a price to pay for those tempted to take a bite. ![]()
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