People circle in and out, some more prominently than others, playing minor and then major roles there are set pieces and reprises and misunderstandings. This is far from being a mere sequel it’s a kaleidoscopic new offering whose beauty resides in its elliptical returns. Certainly, some will want to reread Goon Squad before reading The Candy House, but that’s not necessary.
Egan swoops through time and place, taking us from the Mediterranean to a Little League game, revisiting the same events from different angles. All the characters have their own voices, and their own flaws. Stories nest inside stories, and threads that seem to have been cut short are taken up much later, woven anew. The Candy House is vertiginous: as in Goon Squad, each chapter is narrated by a different character. Now Egan has written a sequel, The Candy House, a heartbreaking, dazzling story of what happens when these same forces confront the might of the digital age. Fanned out like the cards of a fortune-teller, the interlocking stories told of youth and music, of time, courage, and fate.
JUST OVER A DECADE AGO, Jennifer Egan published A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011), a rocket launch of a novel that won the Pulitzer Prize.
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