The Candy House
by Jennifer Egan

 

Please note time change for tonight's meeting!!  8:00 p.m.

The Candy House follows a number of characters as they grapple with Bix Bouton’s revolutionary technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—a device that allows people to upload and share their memories. Naturally, people disagree on whether a collective consciousness is a good thing. Some of those who despise it become “eluders,” abandoning their online identities even as “counters” try to track their disappearance. In this spectacular imagination of our near future, Egan explores the advantages and perils of invasive technologies, and the deep, universal human need for connection. (NPR, Natalie Escobar)

Fiction, 352 pages, published 2022

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We hope you can join us for a discussion of this brilliant and beautifully written book.

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.

Jennifer Egan will be a guest at the Harbour Front Literature Festival on Sunday, September 18, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. The conversation will be led by Daniel Haas (DIE ZEIT) and actor Stephan Kampwirth, known from many films as well as Tatort episodes and the Netflix series "Dark," will read from Candy Haus (most probably from the German translation). Tickets are still available at https://harbourfront-hamburg.com/veranstaltung/candy-house.