CANDY HOUSE adoptedsupply 2ch Sound: Designed ultra slim

2ch Sound: Designed ultra slim with 3 channels

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The clay mineral holds colors in suspension

With her mega-bestseller Quiet

a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley

CANDY HOUSE adoptedsupply 2ch Sound: Designed ultra slimThe Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is ''one of those tech demi gods with whom we're all on a first name basis.'' Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or ''externalizing'' memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology,