| Join The New Republic on April 30 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. for a livestream of our Salon book series. |
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| Author Kevin Nguyen and TNR’s literary editor, Laura Marsh, discuss Kevin’s debut novel, New Waves. |
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Kevin Nguyen dives into the New York City tech world in New Waves, his wry, edgy debut novel, as he follows Margo, one start-up’s sole black employee, and Lucas, a low-paid Asian service rep, who decide to steal their company’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 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? |
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| Kevin Nguyen is the features editor at The Verge and was formerly a senior editor at GQ. He’s written for The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The Millions. He’s a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the National Book Foundation Junior Committee and has served as a judge for the PEN Open Book Award. Nguyen has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture by Brooklyn Magazine and a Star Watch Honoree by Publishers Weekly. He lives in Brooklyn. |
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| Laura Marsh is the literary editor of The New Republic and co-host of the podcast The Politics of Everything. She has written for The New York Review of Books, Dissent, Bookforum, The Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Review. Previously she was an editor at The New York Review of Books. |
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