. Her new novel, The Candy House, a sibling to A Visit From the Goon Squad, was published in April, , and was recently named one of the New York Times's This follow-up to the Pulitzer-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad is packed with smart ideas about digital authenticity but lacks the human. Egan's “The Candy House,” a sequel to her Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Visit From the Goon Squad,” comes alive in dozens of entwined stories. But the 12 years that have gone by since Jennifer Egan published her Pulitzer. January 30, A series at the Museum of Modern Art focuses on the Spanish. A lovesick programmer collects trinkets, like a human. Time is a goon, marauding and thieving and vicious. Jennifer Egan's ambitious new novel — a sequel, of sorts, to 's “A Visit From the Goon Squad” — riffs on memory, authenticity and the allure. A recovering heroin addict considers the redemptive possibility of Dungeons and Dragons. 'Buñuel in Mexico' Review: A Surrealist Master's Overlooked Era. It's a rather touching love story with a darker edge as we come to understand that not everyone has bought into Bix's ''Vision'' of an. Recap: In a dreamy, interwoven bit of organized chaos, Jennifer Egan once again delivers an exceptional story that's not really a story, a tale. the script of a character in a Dungeons and Dragons game feels so unbelievably disconnected that it's hard to know what Egan's point is.