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.
Praise for The Candy House "The novel -- with its prismatic
plotting and ever-shifting chorus of seekers, kooks, and
visionaries -- feels less like a house than a honeycomb full of
fantastical rooms, each one alive and thrumming with bright, weird
humanity." --Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly "The Candy House
is really an incredible feat... astonishing, even a little
bewildering! Jenny is shockingly underrated. She should have the
kind of fawning sycophants that dudes like Franzen and Denis
Johnson do. Let the cult begin herewith!"
--James Hannaham, New York Times Book Review "This is minimalist
maximalism. It's as if Egan compressed a big 19th-century
triple-decker novel onto a flash drive... Egan goes all in on the
power of storytelling and of fiction." --Dwight Garner, The New
York Times "A brilliant demonstration of the unquantifiable
pleasures of great fiction."
--Ron Charles, The Washington Post "Radiant... an exhilarating
delight...Egan opens windows on entrancing new worlds, in which
what happened depends on who's telling the story." --Laura Miller,
Slate "You don't have to read A Visit From the Goon Squad to love
this sibling novel to Egan's stellar hit... complex and intimate."
--Good Housekeeping "May be the smartest novel you read all year...
Fiction at its best... gets at our secret selves in ways the
internet can't... Egan's audacity is welcome." --Mark Athitakis,
USA Today
"This is a beautiful exploration of loss, memory and history, a not
too subtle critique of what is lost when we live our lives online."
--Allison Arieff, The San Francisco Chronicle
"A fast-paced polyvoiced romp thru America in the grip of a
sinister tech that allows others into your mind. EEK!" --Margaret
Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments
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