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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Some
Adult language
Sexual Content
Some
Some adult romantic content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The psychological horror of watching a bright person voluntarily surrender her autonomy; the satire requires engagement with the ideology's seductive logic
What this book is about
Mae Holland lands her dream job at the Circle, a tech company that has combined social media, search, and personal identity into one platform with one goal: complete transparency. As Mae rises within the company and becomes an evangelist for its vision, Eggers charts her gradual willing surrender of privacy, interiority, and eventually her own judgment. A satirical dystopia about Silicon Valley's 'everything shared is good' ideology, written when that ideology was still being sold as liberation.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Surveillance capitalism as dystopian premise
A protagonist who doesn't realize she's the villain
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