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DESCRIPTION:This month we will be reading\nThe Candy House\nby Jennifer Egan\n Please n ote time change for tonight's meeting!!  8:00 p.m.The Candy House follows a number of characters as they grapple with Bix Bouton’s revolutionary techn ology, “Own Your Unconscious”—a device that allows people to upload and sha re their memories. Naturally, people disagree on whether a collective consc iousness is a good thing. Some of those who despise it become “eluders,” ab andoning their online identities even as “counters” try to track their disa ppearance. In this spectacular imagination of our near future, Egan explore s the advantages and perils of invasive technologies, and the deep, univers al human need for connection. (NPR, Natalie Escobar)\nFiction, 352 pages, p ublished 2022\nFor more information, visit here (https://www.simonandschust er.com/books/The-Candy-House/Jennifer-Egan/9781476716763).\nWe hope you can join us for a discussion of this brilliant and beautifully written book.\n  \nJennifer Egan is the author of six previous books of fiction: Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Vis it from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus.\nJennifer Ega n will be a guest at the Harbour Front Literature Festival on Sunday, Septe mber 18, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. The conversation will be led by Daniel Haas (DIE ZEIT) and actor Stephan Kampwirth, known from many films as well as Tatort episodes and the Netflix series "Dark," will read from Candy Haus (most pr obably from the German translation). Tickets are still available at https:/ /harbourfront-hamburg.com/veranstaltung/candy-house (https://harbourfront-h amburg.com/veranstaltung/candy-house).\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This month we will be reading


The Candy House
by Jennife r Egan

The Candy House 

Please note time change for ton ight's meeting!!  8:00 p.m.

The Candy House follo ws a number of characters as they grapple with Bix Bouton’s revolution ary technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—a device that allows people to uploa d and share their memories. Naturally, people disagree on whether a co llective consciousness is a good thing. Some of those who despise it b ecome “eluders,” abandoning their online identities even as “counters” try to track their disappearance. In this spectacular imagination of our near future, Egan explores the advantages and perils of invasive t echnologies, and the deep, universal human need for connection. (NPR, Natal ie Escobar)

Fiction, 352 pages, published 2022

For more in formation, visit here.

We hope you can join us for a discussion of this brilliant and beautifully written book.

&nbs p;Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan is the author of six previous books of fict ion: Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Meda l for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad , which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Aw ard; The Keep; the story collection Emerald Cit y; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and  The Invisible Circus.

Jennifer Egan will be a guest at the Harbour Front Literature Festival on Sunday, September 18, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. The conversation will be led by Daniel Haas (DIE ZEIT) and actor Stephan Kampwirth, known from many films as well as Tatort episodes a nd the Netflix series "Dark," will read from Candy Haus (most probably from the German translation). Tickets are still available at   https://harbourfront-hamburg.com/veranstaltung/candy-house.

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