![]() ![]() Joining Karah Preiss and guest host Betty Cayouette (of Betty’s Book List) as part of the Belletrist Book Club, author Jennifer Egan takes a deep dive into The Candy House, covering topics such as technology, the collective consciousness, shame, and social media, and taking The Candy House to a whole new level. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles-from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter and a chapter of tweets. In the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Hes her sole caregiver when Kamla is away, working for days at a time. 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. Saroo vividly remembers caring for his baby sister, Shekila. Saroo gives her his name and recites the names of his family members. ![]() A neighbor asks if he needs assistance in Hindi. ![]() Jennifer Egan’s newest novel, The Candy House, spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Struggling with language barriers and culture shock, Saroo checks into his hotel in Khandwa, makes his way to the suburb of Ganesh Talai, and finds his old house, which is abandoned, rundown, and smaller than he remembers. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”-which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others-has seduced multitudes. Saroo distrusts the police, but they end up playing a big part in his adoption, though they dont find his family. Unable to read or write or recall the name of. At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Bix Bouton’s 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 40, with four kids, restless, 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. The miraculous and triumphant story of Saroo Brierley, a young man who used Google Earth to rediscover his childhood life and home in an incredible journey from India to Australia and back again. ![]()
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