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New Waves

door Kevin Nguyen

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:A wry and edgy debut novel about race and startup culture, secrecy and surveillance, social media and friendship 

“A knowing, witty, and thought-provoking exploration of love, modern isolation, and what it means to exist—especially as a person of color—in our increasingly digital age.”—Celeste 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 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 startup’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 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 insider’s 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

“Nguyen’s 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.”Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A blistering sendup of startup culture and a sprawling, ambitious, tender debut.”Kirkus Reviews (starred review).
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One of those weird ride books that you liked but at the end are like ok why did I like this? ( )
  hellokirsti | Jan 3, 2024 |
The marketing summary for this novel is a little misleading. One is led to believe that it will be a digital heist story with the possible murder of one of the perpetrators followed by mysterious revelations about her true backstory. Instead we are given a meandering narrative devoid of any real suspense or clear development of this premise. The characters are filled with vague angst and motivations. They seem to spend far too much time in bars morosely drinking while ruminating on the cruel world. Nguyen includes a series of strange sci-fi stories found on the dead woman’s laptop. Regrettably, these aren’t very interesting and have little obvious relevance to the main plot of the novel.

Nguyen explores themes related to the digital age, including the lack of human connection, the ephemeral nature of start-ups and their cutthroat environments. He also includes a theme of racism, but this seems gratuitous since little comes from the fact that two of the main characters are minorities. Margo is a brilliant Black computer engineer with a penchant for speaking her mind and drinking a lot of booze. Lucas is a Vietnamese American, who is an introvert suffering from copious amounts of self-doubt and his fair share of aimlessness. Jill is a struggling novelist whose role seems to be as a sounding board for the two minority characters. All three first met online but find each other through incredible coincidences.

I was tempted to quit this book but instead trudged ahead hoping that something interesting would eventually occur. Trust me; it doesn’t. Instead, its unsatisfying end comes with little resolved in yet another bar. This time in Tokyo. ( )
  ozzer | Jun 4, 2020 |
New Waves by Kevin Nguyen is weird in that speculative fiction way but still readable with an actual plot so not quite...but maybe you’re getting the idea. Main character, Lucas, lives and works in New York--barely surviving as a customer service rep at a tech startup. When his best friend, Margo, dies, Lucas begins a strange mourning process that includes hacking into Margo’s computer and starting a relationship with one of her online friends. They find a series of stories Margo recorded late at night and these are sprinkled throughout the narrative. All of this just acts as a cover for conjecture about race, technology, class and privacy that is mostly thoughtful and interesting. New Waves is definitely not for everyone, but I found just enough story and character development to keep me involved while the topics and intellectual musings hit their mark. ( )
  Hccpsk | Apr 20, 2020 |
Okaaay….I read this book, but at the end, I’m not sure what I got out of it. After thinking about ti for a week, I still don’t understand where it was going. Lucas, who on a whim moves to New York City where he takes a position as customer rep at a tech firm. There he meets Margot, a bright, opinionated engineer for the company. They become friends and steal the customer database before leaving for another company. Then Margot dies and Lucas, adrift and lonely, gets asked by Margot’s mother to delete Margot’s Facebook account. Lucas takes her laptop and in searching her files finds a former friend of Margot’s, with whom he begins a relationship. He eventually moves back to Oregon and when he learns he got money from stock he owned in a tech company ends up moving to Tokyo, where Margot wanted to move. It was a challenging book to read. ( )
  brangwinn | Mar 15, 2020 |
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:A wry and edgy debut novel about race and startup culture, secrecy and surveillance, social media and friendship 

“A knowing, witty, and thought-provoking exploration of love, modern isolation, and what it means to exist—especially as a person of color—in our increasingly digital age.”—Celeste 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 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 startup’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 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 insider’s 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

“Nguyen’s 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.”Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A blistering sendup of startup culture and a sprawling, ambitious, tender debut.”Kirkus Reviews (starred review).

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