 2022 book jacket | |
| Author | Jennifer Egan |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Scribner |
Publication date | April 5, 2022 |
| ISBN | 978-1476716763 |
The Candy House is a novel by Jennifer Egan, published by Scribner's with a U.S. release date of April 5, 2022. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
This novel is a sequel to Egan's 2010 novel A Visit From the Goon Squad . Like that book, it consists of short, interrelated stories with recurring characters, set at different times. Many of the characters from A Visit from the Goon Squad appear in The Candy House, in addition to some of their children. For the most part, The Candy House takes place at a later time period and some of the stories include science-fiction themes. [1] [3] [5] [6]
According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on 55 critic reviews, with 27 "raves", 13 "positive", 11 "mixed", and four "pans". [7] [8] [9]
Dwight Garner of The New York Times wrote:
Egan has a zonking sense of control; she knows where she's going and the polyphonic effects she wants to achieve, and she achieves them, as if she were writing on a type of MacBook that won't exist for another decade. The Candy House and Goon Squad are touchstone New York City and technology...novels of our time; they'll be printed in one volume someday, I suspect, by the Library of America. [1]
Kirkus Reviews said:
As she did in Goon Squad's PowerPoint chapter, Egan doles out information in small bites that accumulate to demonstrate the novel's time-honored strengths: richly complicated characters and compelling narratives...[and the novel is a] thrilling, endlessly stimulating work that demands to be read and reread. [5]
The novel was longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. [10] Publishers Weekly named it one of the top ten works of fiction published in 2022. [11] It was also selected for The New York Times's "10 Best Books of 2022" list. [12]