Because if you do, I can assure you, you won't be able to put it down. But also: If you are a sentient human, you will love this novel.”-Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year If you love the novels of Tom Perotta, you will love this novel. If you have ever lived in New York or worked in an office, you will love this novel. “Is there a satirist alive more brilliant-and more insightful-than Doree Shafrir? That I tore through Startup in a single day-ignoring the cries of my children and the dinging of my phone, laughing with recognition at her characters’ foibles-is perhaps not nearly as significant as the fact that this ridiculously compelling novel has haunted me, every minute, in the weeks that followed. This debut, already praised by Rumaan Alam, Joanna Rakoff, and Nick Bilton, is a sharp, hugely entertaining story of youth, ambition, love, money and technology's inability to hack human nature. It’s a novel that just might spark the official feministing of startup culture.”
Camille Perri, author of The Assistants, notes Startup “is chock-full of strong women transcending the workplace drama, sexual politics, and all-around dumb stuff the men in their life are doing. When a scandal erupts in the lower Manhattan loft building where all four work, they quickly discover just how small a world the Big Apple's tech community can be.Ī senior culture writer at BuzzFeed, Doree was inspired to write this novel by the follies and foibles of the startup world, and also in part by some of the scandals that plagued the tech industry in the last few years. Startup assembles a cast of indelible characters: Mack, the it-boy visionary of the moment trying to take his app to the next level Isabel, a social media hero working for him a bit too closely Katya, an ambitious Russian emigre journalist desperate for a scoop and Sabrina, an exhausted mother of two whose inattentive husband happens to be Katya's boss. A veteran online journalist, Doree has written a hilarious and sharply observed novel about the difficulties of real-life connection in our hyper-connected world.
Doree Shafrir’s hilarious, smart debut Startup is set in the heart of New York City’s tech industry, where 36 is considered past your prime and a pole-dancing workshop is an acceptable Thursday evening activity with your co-workers.
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