{"id":46464,"date":"2020-02-06T11:12:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46464"},"modified":"2020-01-29T15:51:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:51:51","slug":"new-waves-by-kevin-nguyen-in-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/new-waves-by-kevin-nguyen-in-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"New Waves by Kevin Nguyen [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-46277 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/New-Waves-Kevin-Nguyen-BookDragon-530x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/New-Waves-Kevin-Nguyen-BookDragon-530x800.jpg 530w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/New-Waves-Kevin-Nguyen-BookDragon.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>Once upon a time \u2013 before social media, before digital traces and imprints \u2013 death meant an end. Not so much for Lucas after his friend Margo dies by speeding taxi. The unlikely (nonromantic) pair \u2013 coworkers at a tech start-up where Margo is the gifted programmer and Lucas a lowly customer service rep \u2013 have spent most of the past couple years together in and out of the office.<\/p>\n<p>Their bond is cemented by a serendipitous realization of shared teenage history \u2013 as virtual collaborators on an obscure music uploading site \u2013 albeit not for long with Margo\u2019s death at just 25. Before she goes, she manages to get fired, devises a data-theft revenge plan, makes Lucas an accomplice, then alacritously negotiates their next jobs <em>together <\/em>at a rival company.<\/p>\n<p>When Margo\u2019s mother requests Lucas\u2019s help in taking down Margo\u2019s Facebook account, he ends up stealing her computer. The Margo he\u2019s known \u2013 a brilliant, angry black woman avoiding strangulation in a white, male, privileged world of cutting-edge technology \u2013 hardly resembles the person he\u2019s about to get to know via her once-private screen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: Savvy and savage (with plenty of racist, sexist, sociopolitical bite), pop lit doyen Kevin Nguyen\u2019s fiction debut is poised to trigger \u201cnew waves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/?reviewDetail=new-waves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, February 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time \u2013 before social media, before digital traces and imprints \u2013 death meant an end. Not so much for Lucas after his friend Margo dies by speeding taxi. 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