The Startup Wife: A Novel (A Modern Love Story) - Softcover

Anam, Tahmima

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1982156198 ISBN 13: 9781982156190

Publisher: Scribner, 2022

Synopsis

“A whip-smart, funny, and searing look at the wild world of startups.” —Good Morning America Book Club Buzz Pick

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.

About this title

About the Author

Tahmima Anam is the recipient of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and an O. Henry Award and has been named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. She was a Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times and was recently elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is the author of The Startup Wife and a trilogy of novels set in her native Bangladesh. She lives in London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1982156198
• ISBN 13: 9781982156190
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320