PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time comes an electrifying deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity privacy and meaning in a world where our memories are no longer our own--featuring characters from A Visit from the Goon Squad. It''s 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He''s forty with four kids and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalising" memory. Within a decade Bix''s new technology Own Your Unconscious--that allows you access to every memory you''ve ever had and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others--has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. In spellbinding linked narratives Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Intellectually dazzling and extraordinarily moving The Candy House is a bold brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. With a focus on social media gaming and alternate worlds you can almost experience moving among dimensions in a role-playing game. Egan takes her "deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technology-driven image-saturated culture" (Vogue) to stunning new heights and delivers a fierce and exhilarating testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection love family privacy and redemption. . Language: English