A lovesick programmer collects trinkets, like a human. 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. 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. Time is a goon, marauding and thieving and vicious. 'Buñuel in Mexico' Review: A Surrealist Master's Overlooked Era. 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. . 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. A recovering heroin addict considers the redemptive possibility of Dungeons and Dragons. 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. But the 12 years that have gone by since Jennifer Egan published her Pulitzer. 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. January 30, A series at the Museum of Modern Art focuses on the Spanish.