Lesung und Gespräch mit Jennifer Egan

Reading & Talk with Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan. "The Candy House" (2022) is an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no longer our own. Bix is 40, withfour kids, restless, desperatefor anew idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010.Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own Your Unconscious" that 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. But not everyone. In spellbinding interlocking narratives, Jennifer Egan spins out the consequences of “Own Your Unconscious” through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. 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.