Ep 585 - The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan
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The Importance of a Microphone
Egan's novel is written in almost like an instruction manual or a series of like little snippets of advice. The language kind of has a shift, sometimes it sounds like instructions that she is remembering from something that she was briefed on. Sometimes it sounds like their instruction she's giving herself. And then sometimes they are telling the instructions to someone else who's like reading it later. Egan: "It's just really interesting to watch her work and really interesting to meet the characters"
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