![]() ![]() For example, Bix Bouton is a Zuckerberg-like innovator who operationalizes an algorithm involving the so-called “affinity charm,” becoming rich and famous while changing the digital and real worlds forever.Īs the novel opens, Bix needs a new idea, so he attends a gathering of Columbia professors where he plunders at will, appropriating an idea related to the externalization of memory. Technologies are as important to this novel as the characters who create, embrace, and elude them. ![]() At the same time, I understood the overall narrative to be intimately networked, mirroring the different technological innovations that Egan imagines, if not foretells. As I devoured this book, I imagined each chapter as a uniquely-wrapped confection with a provocatively unsettling center. ![]() Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House is a delight. ![]()
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