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Jennifer Egan on the value of storytelling in a data-driven world
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad revisits characters from that book in her new novel, The Candy House. In it, Egan imagines a near-future in which people can upload their memories to the cloud and search around in other people's experiences. What could go wrong? What could go right?And who gets to interpret what it all means?