The Startup Wife: A Novel
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR In this "wise and wickedly funny novel about love, creativity, and the limitations of the tech-verse" (Vogue) newlyweds Asha and Cyrus find themselves running one of the most popular social media platforms in the world. Meet Asha Ray. Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to make a scientific breakthrough when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones. Before she knows it, Asha has abandoned her lab, exchanged vows with Cyrus, and gone to work at an exclusive tech incubator called Utopia to develop an app called WAI--"We are Infinite." WAI creates a sensation, with millions of users logging on every day. Will Cyrus and Asha's marriage survive the pressures of sudden fame, or will she become overshadowed by the man everyone is calling the new messiah? This "scathing--and hilarious--take on startup culture, marriage and workaholism" (Politico) explores whether or not technology--with all its limits and possibilities--can disrupt modern love.
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Content warning for violence, suicide, death, manipulation, and related topics. I read this novel for a book club and really enjoyed it. It kicked me out of my reading slump! This is a character-centric book, and the platform WAI is often the most important character. I felt like Asha and Cyrus's relationship was glossed over. It felt like zero to one hundred really quickly, and it wasn't believable to me. I didn't get the appeal of Cyrus, I was distrustful of him from the start. I really liked Asha though, especially the discussions of gender/race/class in the tech world.
