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.
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.
“Intellectually dazzling and extraordinarily moving, The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away,” Scribner said. “With a focus on social media, gaming, and alternate worlds, you can almost experience moving among dimensions in a role-playing game.”
Egan said she was “thrilled” to be publishing the novel with Scribner.
“I had already begun to imagine my way beyond A Visit from the Goon Squad even before it was published,” Egan said. “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.”
The Candy House is scheduled for publication on April 5, 2022.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
