Book Group: The Candy House
Named one of the New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2022, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love. The Group will meet on Sunday, Oct. 26th at a Center City home. Space is limited.
About the Book:
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes.
ONE of the TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2022
- THE NEW YORK TIMES *
- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY *
- SLATE*
- THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER *
Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
- Vanity Fair,
- Time
- NPR,
- The Guardian,
- Oprah Daily
- Self
- Vogue
- The New Yorker
- BBC ….and many more!
About the Author:
Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read. Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was recently named one of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Her new novel, The Candy House, a companion to A Visit From the Goon Squad, was named one of the New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2022 and one of President Obama’s favorite reads of the year. She has served as President of PEN America and twice as Artist-in-Residence in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has taught courses in 19th and 20th Century literature. Her year-long reporting on street homelessness and supportive housing in New York City was published in The New Yorker in September of 2023.
Host / Lead Organizer: Susan Robinson
Date: Sunday, Oct. 26th at 3:00 pm.
Location: Address will be included in confirmation email.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Limited to 8 people.
Where:
Center City
Locust St
Philadelphia, PA 19102
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