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AuthorsLive: The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

AuthorsLive is pleased to welcome Jennifer Egan to celebrate the paperback release of The Candy House.

The staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose 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 forty, with four kids, restless, and 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. 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.

Egan will be joined in conversation with Barbara Hoffert of Library Journal. 

Date:
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Time:
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
Berkley Theater
Audience:
  Adult     Senior  
Categories:
  Author Talk     Book Discussion     Lecture and Conversation     Special Event  
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Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection.  Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read. Her previous novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times book prize, and was named one of the best books of the decade by Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly.  Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine, and she recently completed a term as President of PEN America.  Her new novel, The Candy House, a sibling to A Visit From the Goon Squad, was published in April, 2022, and was recently named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2022, as well as one of President Obama’s favorite reads of 2022.

AuthorsLive at GreenwichLibrary is made possible through the support of the Greenwich Library Board of Trustees and charitable contributions from our community. This event is open to all at no charge. Books will be available for purchase and signing through Diane's Books.