All it takes is 30 minutes with electrodes attached to your head. Bix has invented a process by which memories can be exported to the cloud. You pay for infinite knowledge and entertainment with your data, your privacy, your dignity.īix Bouton, a friend of Sasha’s in The Goon Squad, is now the founder of tech giant Mandala. Whatever spoils you’ve obtained from it come at great cost. It lures you in with promises of sweetness and then someone inside pushes you into an oven. It is the candy house in the novel’s title. But now the real problem is the Internet. We meet many of the same characters: Sasha, who has channeled her impulse for petty theft into creating sculptures out of trash Lou, who remains disgusting. In her new “sibling” novel, The Candy House, time’s passage is a foregone conclusion.
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