Series
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan · 2 novels · 2010–2022
Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad follows a loosely connected group of characters orbiting the music industry across several decades, told through interlocking chapters that jump between narrators, timelines, and, in one chapter, a PowerPoint presentation. The Candy House returns to several of the same characters and their descendants a decade later, in a world reshaped by a technology that lets people access and share their memories. Egan links the two books through recurring characters more than a continuous plot.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Map
A Visit from the Goon Squad at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s1
- 2020s1
Shape
Mood
Grim and calm: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- A Visit from the Goon Squaddarkest · calmest
- The Candy Housebrightest · most intense