We are thrilled to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan in conversation about her eagerly anticipated new book The Candy House with bestselling author Garth Risk Hallberg.

A ‘sibling novel’ to her Pulitzer Prize- and NBCC Award-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Candy House is an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world where memories and identities are no longer private.

Tickets cost $35 and include a copy of the book The Candy House (value $28). Buy tickets here.

Books can be picked up at Festival partner Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, or shipped to your home address (call Watchung Booksellers for details). The book is available for pick-up. This event will be held in The Sanctuary of the First Congregational Church, 40 S Fullerton Ave, Montclair. We will follow all Covid-19 safety protocols required by the CDC at the time of the event. 

Jennifer Egan is the author of six previous books of fiction: Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Granta, McSweeney’s, and The New York Times Magazine. Her website is JenniferEgan.com.

Garth Risk Hallberg’s first novel, City on Fire, was an international bestseller and was named one of the best books of 2015 by the Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Vogue, among others.  He has also published a novella, A Field Guide to the North American Family. His essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, Prairie Schooner, and Granta, which in 2017 named him one of the “Best of Young American Novelists.” Season 1 of City on Fire will air on Apple+ this fall.

This event is part of Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival.

Any proceeds from the festival benefit parent organization, Montclair-based non-profit Succeed2gether, which offers after-school one-on-one tutoring and enrichment classes with the aim of closing the education and opportunity gaps in Essex County, NJ. You can read more about Succeed2gether and the festival at www.succeed2gether.org.