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<p><b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i>'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020. </b><br><br><b>Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by <i>The</i> <i>Washington Post</i>, <i>The Atlantic, </i>NPR, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, ELLE<i>, Esquire</i>, <i>Parade</i>, <i>Teen Vogue</i>,<i> The Boston Globe, Forbes, The Times </i>(UK), <i>Fortune, Chicago Tribune, Glamour, The A.V. Club, Vox, Jezebel, </i><i>Town & Country, OneZero, Apartment Therapy</i>, <i>Good Housekeeping, PopMatters, </i><i>Electric Literature, Self, The Week </i>(UK) and <i>BookPage.</i> </b><b>A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editors' Choice and a January 2020 IndieNext Pick.</b><br><b><br>"A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come." --Jia Tolentino, author of <i>Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion</i></b><br><b><br>The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age</b><br><br>In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial--left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, <i>progress</i>.<br><br>Anna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. <br><br>Part coming-of-age-story, part portrait of an alr