{"product_id":"book-dcqc","title":"Uncanny Valley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Narrator Suehyla El-Attar has a strong voice for this memoir of a woman's journey into the mostly male world of tech start-ups in Silicon Valley. She is energetic, funny, and swift while telling the story of Anna Wiener's acculturation from book publishing in Manhattan to the dot-com boom in San Francisco.\" —\u003ci\u003e AudioFile Magazine  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice and a January 2020 IndieNext Pick. An Amazon Best Book of January. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e's 22 Books to Read This Winter, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e's 10 Books to Read in January, ELLE's 12 Best Books to Read in 2020,  \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 12 Books to Read in January, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e's 15 Best Winter Books, \u003ci\u003ePaste\u003c\/i\u003e's 10 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2020, and \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2020.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to \u003ci\u003eUncanny Valley \u003c\/i\u003efor clarity and consolation for many years to come.\" —Jia Tolentino, author of \u003ci\u003eTrick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe prescient account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eprogress\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart coming-age-story, part portrait of an already-bygone era, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. With wit, candor, and heart, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnsparing and incisive, \u003ci\u003eUncanny Valley\u003c\/i\u003e is a cautionary tale, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from MCD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49375615484208,"sku":"BDdcqc","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dcqc-cover.jpg?v=1759792651","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dcqc","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}