Pulitzer Prize-Winner & New York Times-Bestselling Author Jennifer Egan
Schedule
Tue, 14 Mar, 2023 at 07:00 pm
Location
Columbus Museum of Art | Columbus, OH
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REGISTER: https://www.thurberhouse.org/spring-2023-events/jennifer-eganFrom Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Egan comes an “inventive, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. The Candy House, a sibling to A Visit From the Goon Squad, was named one of President Obama’s favorite reads of 2022; a Top Ten Best Book of 2022 by The New York Times Book Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer; and Slate, and named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, Harper's Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, and Vogue.
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, a "tech demi-god" who's restless for a new idea when he stumbles into a conversation group of 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. 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. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love.
You will have the opportunity to ask the speaker questions after the event, purchase books, and get your books signed.
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Where is it happening?
Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E Broad St,Columbus,OH,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
