At times reading felt like taking a quiz where you stare at a question struggling to come up with the correct solution, the answer stubbornly taking up residence on the tip of your tongue.

Such varied formatting forces the reader to find the story between the lines – to identify the unwritten plot and fill in the blanks, not with their own imagination but instead from subtle information planted in previous or sometimes even later chapters. One chapter entitled “Lulu the Spy, 2032” is written as a series of thought entries while another, “See Below,” is composed entirely of email threads. Like its predecessor “A Visit from The Goon Squad,” each chapter in “The Candy House” is told by a different character as well as in a different format. I want to make it clear that this review will not be a plot summary or a summary of sort, but rather a review of the thoughts and emotions one might expect when turning the pages of the number one book of 2022 according to the New York Times (and to me). The series was introduced to me by my suitemate and has since consumed most of my time as opposed to my, arguably more pressing though far less interesting, homework. But alas, it also wasn’t a book I could put down. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction.With its iridescent rainbow cover contrasted with stark-white size fifty aerial font, “The Candy House” was not a book I felt proud to be reading amidst the literary geniuses holed up alongside me in the library. She is the host of two New Yorker podcasts, the Fiction Podcast and The Writer’s Voice, and edited the anthology “ 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker.” In 2012, she received the Maxwell E. She joined the magazine as the deputy fiction editor in 1997. Her latest book, “ The Candy House,” a highly anticipated follow-up to “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” came out in April.ĭeborah Treisman has been The New Yorker’s fiction editor since 2003. Egan was the subject of a Profile in 2017 her most recent story for the magazine, “ What the Forest Remembers,” was published in January. She has contributed fiction and nonfiction stories to a variety of publications, including the Times Magazine and The New Yorker. Her subsequent novel, “ Manhattan Beach,” a Second World War-era noir set in New York City, received the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her 2011 novel, “ A Visit from the Goon Squad,” received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Jennifer Egan is the author of six books and a collection of short stories.

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