Midway into Jennifer Egan's "The Candy House" you may find yourself moaning, "Why don't novels come with an index?" A "sibling novel" - per Egan - to her Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Visit From the Goon Squad," this book takes a similar form, with a considerable cast of intricately connected characters shifting through different configurations in interlocking stories set in the recent past and not so distant future and told in a dizzying variety of ways.
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