Diana Hendry

Memory test: The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan, reviewed

The ‘sibling’ to A Visit from the Goon Squad, Egan’s new novel is a clever if confusing mishmash of family saga, sci fi and literary incest

Jennifer Egan. [Getty Images] 
issue 23 April 2022

On page 231 of The Candy House, a sequel – no, a ‘sibling’ says Jennifer Egan – to the Pulitzer prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad, we meet a character called Noreen. Wasn’t she in Goon Squad? Quick check and yes, there she is playing a bit-part peeping through a fence.

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