![]() ![]() Like its predecessor, The Candy House is structured less like a novel and more like an interconnected set of short stories, or a short story cycle: in one long-ago interview, Egan noted that with A Visit From the Goon Squad she wanted to evoke a ‘lateral feeling’ that would depart from the A-to-B conventions of your typical mainstream novel. Goon Squad fans: remember Bosco’s Suicide Tour? Remember the intricate webs of desire and kinship and memory and horror of/obsession with the digital world that drew Bennie to Sasha to Alex to Lulu to Dolly to General B (and more)? Remember Scotty’s slide guitar? Remember Lulu’s Ts, and her frustration that, given the infinite nuance and subtlety of human speech and metaphor, you can’t ever just ‘say the thing’? Well, twelve years later, welcome to The Candy House, the ‘sibling novel’ to our old Pulitzer-winning fave, where you’ll get to retrace some old threads (Mindy!) and watch new ones spin out (Chris Salazar!). ![]()
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