Paperback, 491 pages
English language
Published Sept. 7, 2014 by Penguin Books.
When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle links users' personal emails. social media and finances, resulting in one online identity and a new age of trans- patency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. --back cover
A dystopian near-future novel in which a naive young employee of a giant tech company is seduced (like everyone else) into its world view and amibitions. It made for a great LT discussion. More thoughts at barbarafister.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/the-paranoid-style-in-american-literature/.
