Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Egan, Mandel, Vuong, Stuart, and More

Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from Jennifer Egan, our own Emily St. John Mandel, Ocean Vuong, Douglas Stuart, and more—that are publishing this week.

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The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

Here’s what  about : “Egan returns to the fertile territory and characters of  with an electrifying and shape-shifting story that one-ups its Pulitzer-winning predecessor. I’ll see your PowerPoint chapter, Egan seems to say, and raise you a chapter in tweets, and another in emails and texts. In the near future, a platform called Own Your Unconscious allows memories to be uploaded to the cloud and accessed by anyone. ‘Counters’ seek to ferret out ‘proxies’ that help hide ‘eluders’ who resist merging their ‘gray grabs’ to the collective in order to leave their online personae behind. Not everyone sees this as panacea, and a countermovement called Mondrian arises. Appearances from music producer Bennie Salazar, his mentor Lou Kline, and their lovers and children provide sharp pleasures for fans, and Egan cleverly echoes the ambitious, savvy marketing schemes of real-world tech