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Jennifer Egan: The Candy House (2022, Scribner)

The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so …

Review of 'The Candy House' on 'Goodreads'

An extension of A Visit From the Goon Squad that carries those notes of worry with aging and an additional layer that seeks to make sense of memories, finality, and the idea of a person's story in within the overwhelming scale of the world. A lot of spinning parts that can sometimes be hard to track over more disparate generations yet have delicately interwoven pieces that don't necessarily need to be revelatory. Sometimes it's enough just to be, knowing when to look away and embrace that knowing everything is unnecessary.