It doesn’t feel quite correct to say that Jennifer Egan’s “The Candy House” (Scribner, 352 pp., ★★★ out of four, out Tuesday) is a sequel to her Pulitzer-winning 2010 novel, “A Visit From the Goon ...

A few years ago, I found myself in a stranger’s home when she was not there. I looked into her shower, checked the knobs on her stove, walked the path from the front door to the garage where the ...

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This companion novel to A Visit from the Goon Squad, in which memories are uploaded and shared, explores the loneliness of hyper-connectivity A visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan’s 2010 Pulitzer ...

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In her typically inventive fashion, Jennifer Egan calls The Candy House, the follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize winner A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011), a “sibling novel”. Is this new book smarter, ...

THE TITLE of Jennifer Egan’s new novel refers to the witch’s cottage which, enticing yet full of danger, lures in Hansel and Gretel. “Never trust a candy house!” a character observes early in the book ...