Jennifer Egan’s ambitious new novel — a sequel, of sorts, to 2010’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad” — riffs on memory, authenticity and the allure of new technology.

Egan’s “The Candy House,” a sequel to her Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Visit From the Goon Squad,” comes alive in dozens of entwined stories.

Even in an era of boundless hype, Jennifer Egan’s “The Candy House” has a legitimate claim on the title of Most Anticipated Book of the Year. This is, after all, a sequel to “A Visit From ...

The Candy House begins with Bix, who we last met in Goon Squad as a brilliant Black grad student in the early ’90s, evangelizing to his classmates about the oncoming wonders of the web.

Overall, “The Candy House” is a sensational novel that depicts the human struggle to find your place in a technologically evolving world. With intricately written prose and nuanced characters ...

In The Candy House, there is a persistent, lovely countermelody to the corporate project of mapping human experience and using it to predict what people will think and buy.

The Candy House’s inventiveness points a way forward for the novel as a genre. It suggests how the novel can be made new again – not just formally, ...

The Candy House’s inventiveness points a way forward for the novel as a genre. It suggests how the novel can be made new again – not just formally, but in its depiction of human existence in a ...

There may—or may not—be an element of Jobs in Bix Bouton, a minor character from Egan’s 2011 novel A Visit From the Goon Squad, who reappears as a tech visionary at the start of The Candy House.In ...

The Candy House, which takes its title from the gingerbread house in Hansel and Gretel is, ­however, no sabre-tooth savaging of corporate big tech in the way of, say, Dave Eggers’s recent novel ...