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Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or \"externalising\" memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious—allowing access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes. But not everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn spellbinding linked narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Intellectually dazzling and extraordinarily moving, \u003cem\u003eThe Candy House\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. 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