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A sequel of sorts to Jennifer Egan’s 2010 novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Candy House centers on an app dreamed up by a tech mogul named Bix Bouton (who briefly appeared in the first novel). In this app, “Own Your Unconscious,” people can upload their life’s memories to a new technology. The stories in The Candy House all revolve around this question of memory and technology. She begins with an epigraph of a poem by Emily Dickinson: The Brain— is wider than the Sky— For— put them side by side— The one the other will contain With… Read Full Article