Author Jennifer Egan: Writing Through Time
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When and Where of the Candy House?
When is a tricky question when it comes to this book, because chronology is not an organizing principle. So i already knew that the candy house would also be a chronological but for each of the pieces in it, we are in a specific time and place. That's how i thought of them when i was working on the candy house. My portal in is that location in time and space. And in the case of the candy house, the time span ranges from 19 65 to 20 35. But not in order. It's 19 65, 20 35. The opening chapter focuses on bix boughton, who appears briefly in gun squad, and who predicted the impact of social media in
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