In the chapter titled "See Below," she uses overlapping email chains to show the ripple effect of a woman, Lulu Kisarian, trying to reconnect with her movie-star father after returning from a traumatic espionage mission. Egan tells this story through a variety of perspectives and styles, leaping back and forth through time. Bix hopes that by doing this he can correct some of the harm he has done. Towards the novel's conclusion, it is revealed, by Bix's lawyer, that he ultimately regrets the impact his digital empire has had on the world and decides to leave a massive amount of money to the CEO of a non-profit called Mondrian, Chris Salazar, whose products help elude data-collection. Concurrently, the novel also describes the work of "eluders" such as Kline: individuals who attempt to outwit Mandala's invasive information collection by confusing the company's pattern detection.
Mandala uses "counters" to secretly gather data on its users to map and predict their consumer behavior patterns. This sparks his new concept "Own Your Unconscious," a program that allows users to upload all of their memories to a shared network and, in return, gives them access to a collective database of users' lives.
He attends a discussion group after a lecture from one of his biggest critics, anthropologist Miranda Kline, and learns about innovations in the field of digitizing memories and thoughts.
The novel begins with Bix Bouton, a tech executive and founder of the company Mandala, who is searching for his next new idea and feeling stuck in a rut. The novel follows the intersecting lives of various characters in a series of stylistically diverse short stories as they engage with a future in which individuals can upload their consciousness to a digital cloud. The Candy House is a speculative fiction novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan, first published in 2022.
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