THE CANDY HOUSE: Jennifer Egan in conversation with Danzy Senna

Acclaimed novelists Jennifer Egan and Danzy Senna join ALOUD to discuss Egan’s new novel THE CANDY HOUSE and its deep, imaginative story.
From the daring Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Jennifer Egan, this program will enter the world of THE CANDY HOUSE, her “sibling novel” to A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD. In spellbinding interlocking narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of “Own Your Unconscious,” a fictional foray into the idea of a technology that allows us access to every memory we’ve ever had, and to share these memories in exchange for access to the memories of others. Through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades, this intellectually dazzling story is also extraordinarily moving, a testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy and redemption. 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. If GOON SQUAD was organized like a concept album, THE CANDY HOUSE incorporates Electronic Dance Music’s more disjunctive approach. Join us as the two extraordinary literary voices of Jennifer Egan and Danzy Senna walk us through THE CANDY HOUSE and its bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away.
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