Jennifer Egan, one of the most celebrated writers of our time and a literary figure with a cult status, joins us to discuss The Candy House, an electrifying, deeply moving "sibling novel" to her Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world where memories and identities are no longer private. In conversation with Vass Bednar.

When a new technology called "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 is invented, it seduces millions. But not everyone.

In spellbinding interlocking narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also extraordinarily moving, a testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy and redemption.

The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. Egan takes to stunning new heights her "deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technology-driven image-saturated culture" (Vogue).

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Jennifer Egan: The Candy House