The Candy House

4.5 rounded down.

Absolutely up my alley. Clearly I should have been reading Jennifer Egan's work all along.
I loved the interconnected characters telling interconnected stories and I loved the unusual format.

The half star off comes from the less-than-ideal description of a (possibly, but never confirmed) trans character. Trans women didn't “use to be men.” They are women who have been mistakenly raised as men. In this day and age (let alone in, what was it, the 2030s? that Gregory's portion of the novel was set in) it should be pretty well known that it's inaccurate and offensive to describe trans women that way.

Alas, authors, like all humans, are fallible creatures. But honestly, this should have been caught by a sensitivity read before it went to print.