02128cam a2200397 i 4500 553286883 TxAuBib 20220407120000.0 210823s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021041521 9781476716763 hardcover 1476716765 hardcover 9781476716770 paperback 1476716773 paperback (OCoLC)1259046378 TxAuBib rda Egan, Jennifer. The candy house : a novel / Jennifer Egan. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2022. ©2022. 334 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Goon Squad "The Candy House opens with 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 40, with four kids, restless, 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. 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. Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades...The Candy House is also a testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy, and redemption."--Dust jacket flap. 20220407. Memory Fiction. Social media Fiction. Technology Fiction. Consciousness Fiction. Psychological fiction. Science fiction. Goon Squad.