Reading the Candy House is like looking at its cover: a messy conglomeration of small pixels, some related, haphazardly on a page and yet a meaning emerges.
This novel feels like confetti. There are a lot of characters and they appear in each other's stories/sections, sometimes under pseudonyms or unnamed for a big chunk of their screen time and, as the reader, we therefore get to experience the Collective.

This is speculative fiction with one sci-fi element: social media, but one step further. Objective memory uploading to a public cloud. All the events in this book are tied to and influenced by the Collective but priority is still given to the relational dramas between family members, friends, colleagues... I love books that explore a concept through many lenses and provide this kind of a tapestry.

Recommended if you enjoy reading about the mundane, including mundane conflicts, find yourself wondering what unseen effects social media has on our relationships with one another, and don't mind losing track of characters.

More thoughts here: https://youtu.be/PzkEfMJg21M