![]() ![]() At the center of this web is a new technology, Own Your Unconscious, that allows users to download and preserve their memories-as well as share them with others. The book follows a handful of interconnected characters-some who made appearances, major and minor, in Goon Squad, others who appear here for the first time-hopscotching across the decades, from the 1960s to the 2030s. A starred Kirkus review called it a “thrilling, endlessly stimulating work that demands to be read and reread”-and having read it once myself, I know that I’ll be revisiting it. ![]() Now that novel is here, and The Candy House (Scribner, April 5) truly delivers. Could Egan match the extraordinary accomplishments of Goon Squad? The news was met with rapturous anticipation-and an undercurrent of anxiety. On a podcast in the summer of 2020, novelist Jennifer Egan revealed she was working on a new book that would be a companion to A Visit From the Goon Squad, the 2010 novel that won a National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize and made her a breakout literary star. ![]()
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