If plot were the crucial measure, there’d be no difference between a story about the fish that got away and “Moby-Dick.” Reading such summaries (or writing them) is usually as beguiling as listening to some addled fan of “Lost” explain what happened on that botched rune of a show.Īt least this is how I felt until I read Jennifer Egan’s remarkable new fiction, “A Visit From the Goon Squad.” Whether it is a novel or a collection of linked stories is a matter for the literary accountants to tote up in their ledgers of the inconsequential. They’re the flyover country between a reviewer’s landing strips of judgment, revealing almost nothing about the way a book actually works, almost nothing about why it succeeds or fails. Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.If you’re like me, you tend to regard plot summaries as a necessary boredom at best.
The Candy House is scheduled for publication on April 5, 2022. “ The Candy House follows a number of its peripheral characters into their own futures and pasts to create an independent work with a new set of preoccupations and center of gravity, but equal affinity for technology, humor, and structural freedom.” “I had already begun to imagine my way beyond A Visit from the Goon Squad even before it was published,” Egan said. “With a focus on social media, gaming, and alternate worlds, you can almost experience moving among dimensions in a role-playing game.”Įgan said she was “thrilled” to be publishing the novel with Scribner. “Intellectually dazzling and extraordinarily moving, The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away,” Scribner said.
The publisher set a spring 2022 release date for The Candy House, which it describes as “a book that is both pure pleasure on the sentence level and wildly ambitious in scope.” The novel will feature characters from A Visit From the Goon Squad, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Jennifer Egan’s “sibling novel” to her critically acclaimed 2010 book A Visit From the Goon Squad will be published next year, Scribner announced Thursday in a news release.
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