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A review by willowbiblio
The Candy House: A Novel by Jennifer Egan
5.0
"The need for personal glory is like cigarette addiction: a habit that feels life-sustaining even as it kills you. Childish attention-seeking is usually satisfied at the expense of real power. An enemy of the state could not have connived a better way to defang and distract us. Now our notorious narcissism is our camouflage."
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An excellent take on the what-ifs of the evolution of technology and social media. I love Egan's style of timeline hopping the interconnected narratives and her Easter Eggs from "A Visit from the Goon Squad". It was scary to see in print how people were effectively giving up their lives to evade the chronically-online state the world is evolving into. Equally to avoid their existence being viewed as marketable data. Her ability to create such unique and distinct narrative voices is almost unmatched. her ability to induce fear, disdain, and disgust for characters only to give them a redemption arc that allows others to rise as well is marvelous and not at all overrated.
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An excellent take on the what-ifs of the evolution of technology and social media. I love Egan's style of timeline hopping the interconnected narratives and her Easter Eggs from "A Visit from the Goon Squad". It was scary to see in print how people were effectively giving up their lives to evade the chronically-online state the world is evolving into. Equally to avoid their existence being viewed as marketable data. Her ability to create such unique and distinct narrative voices is almost unmatched. her ability to induce fear, disdain, and disgust for characters only to give them a redemption arc that allows others to rise as well is marvelous and not at all overrated.