Book of the Month: The Candy House (2022) by Jennifer Eagan Critical Evaluation "If  The Candy House is less cohesive than “Goon Squad,” it may be because its subject is harder to get one’s arms around. The story doesn’t describe an arc so much as a network diagram; it doesn’t end, it stops. The biggest criticism I can make of The Candy House is that it kicks us out just when it seems to be getting started. But that is also the strongest praise I can give it. Egan knows that she can never offer a complete picture of the global [...]