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New waves : a novel / Kevin Nguyen.
"Lucas and Margo are fed up. Margo is a brilliant programmer tired of being talked over as the company's sole black employee, and while Lucas is one of many Asians at the firm, he's nearly invisible as a low-paid customer service rep. Together, they decide to steal their tech start-up's user database in an attempt at revenge. The heist takes a sudden turn when Margo dies in a car accident, and Lucas is left reeling, wondering what to do with their secret--and wondering whether her death really was an accident. When Lucas hacks into Margo's computer looking for answers, he is drawn into her secret online life and realizes just how little he knew about his best friend. With a fresh voice, biting humor, and piercing observations about human nature, Kevin Nguyen brings an insider's knowledge of the tech industry to this imaginative novel. A pitch-perfect exploration of race and start-up culture, secrecy and surveillance, social media and friendship, New Waves asks: How well do we really know each other? And how do we form true intimacy and connection in a tech-obsessed world?"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781984855237 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 306 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : One World, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Subject: | Social media > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Theft > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Humorous fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- Baker & Taylor
"Lucas and Margo are fed up. Margo is a brilliant programmer tired of being talked over as the company's sole black employee, and while Lucas is one of many Asians at the firm, he's nearly invisible as a low-paid customer service rep. Together, they decide to steal their tech start-up's user database in an attempt at revenge. The heist takes a sudden turn when Margo dies in a car accident, and Lucas is left reeling, wondering what to do with their secret--and wondering whether her death really was an accident. When Lucas hacks into Margo's computer looking for answers, he is drawn into her secret online life and realizes just how little he knew about his best friend. With a fresh voice, biting humor, and piercing observations about human nature, Kevin Nguyen brings an insider's knowledge of the tech industry to this imaginative novel. A pitch-perfect exploration of race and start-up culture, secrecy and surveillance, social media and friendship, New Waves asks: How well do we really know each other? And how do we form true intimacy and connection in a tech-obsessed world?"-- - Baker & Taylor
Fed up with discriminating bosses, an Asian-American customer service representative and a talented African-American programmer conspire to steal their employerâs user database before an unexpected setback exposes a secret double life. A first novel. - Random House, Inc.
A wry and moving debut novel about friendship, the internet, and a young manâs search for true connection
âA knowing, witty, and thought-provoking exploration of love, modern isolation, and what it means to existâespecially as a person of colorâin our increasingly digital age.ââCeleste Ng, bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR ⢠The New York Public Library ⢠Parade ⢠Kirkus Review
Lucas and Margo are fed up. Margo is a brilliant programmer tired of being talked over as the companyâs sole black employee, and while Lucas is one of many Asians at the firm, heâs nearly invisible as a low-paid customer service rep. Together, they decide to steal their tech startupâs user database in an attempt at revenge. The heist takes a sudden turn when Margo dies in a car accident, and Lucas is left reeling, wondering what to do with their secretâand wondering whether her death really was an accident. When Lucas hacks into Margoâs computer looking for answers, he is drawn into her private online life and realizes just how little he knew about his best friend.
With a fresh voice, biting humor, and piercing observations about human nature, Kevin Nguyen brings an insiderâs knowledge of the tech industry to this imaginative novel. A pitch-perfect exploration of race and startup culture, secrecy and surveillance, social media and friendship, New Waves asks: How well do we really know one another? And how do we form true intimacy and connection in a tech-obsessed world?
Praise for New Waves
âNguyenâs stellar debut is a piercing assessment of young adulthood, the tech industry, and racism. . . . Nguyen impressively holds together his overlapping plot threads while providing incisive criticism of privilege and a dose of sharp humor. The story is fast-paced and fascinating, but also deeply felt; the effect is a page-turner with some serious bite.ââPublishers Weekly (starred review)
âA blistering sendup of startup culture and a sprawling, ambitious, tender debut.ââKirkus Reviews (starred review)
