# The Candy House - Hardcover

by **Jennifer Egan** (Author)

**A _NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER**

**ONE of the TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR by _THE NEW YORK TIMES \* ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY \* SLATE\* THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER_** _\*_

**Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by _Vanity Fair, Time,_ NPR, _The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker,_ BBC, _Vulture,_ and many more!**

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**From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an "inventive, effervescent" (_Oprah Daily_) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection.**

_The Candy House_ opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own Your Unconscious"--which allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others--has seduced multitudes.

In the world of Egan's spectacular imagination, there are "counters" who track and exploit desires and there are "eluders," those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles--from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, _The Candy House_ is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love.

"A beautiful exploration of loss, memory, and history" (_San Francisco Chronicle_), "this is minimalist maximalism. It's as if Egan compressed a big 19th-century novel onto a flash drive" (_The New York Times)._

### Author Biography

Jennifer Egan is the author of six previous books of fiction: _Manhattan Beach_, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; _A Visit from the Goon Squad_, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; _The Keep_; the story collection _Emerald City_; _Look at Me_, a National Book Award Finalist; and _The Invisible Circus_. Her work has appeared in _The New Yorker_, _Harper's Magazine_, _Granta_, _McSweeney's_, and _The_ _New York Times Magazine_. Her website is JenniferEgan.com.

**Number of Pages:** 352

**Dimensions:** 1.18 x 9.29 x 6.31 IN

**Publication Date:** April 05, 2022

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