NEW WAVES 🌊 A VERY GOOD BOOK 📖 AVAILABLE MARCH 10! ✨ 

Reviews for New Waves









“Nguyen’s own attempts to infuse New Waves with politics, heart and reality are admirable. He captures beautifully the subtle strains of being disenfranchised, poor and lonely in New York.”
— New York Times Book Review

New Waves manages to be both knowing and cutting, a satire of internet culture that is also a moving portrait of a lost human being.”
— Los Angeles TImes

“While satirizing the tech world’s social mores, Nguyen also unearths the biases that govern our digital infrastructure, which are omnipresent in everything from the algorithm behind Pac-Man to the underpinnings of surveillance technology.“ — The New Yorker

“Funny and sad, smart and wise, completely of the moment, this is a book you want to read.“  — Newsday

“Mr. Nguyen is insightful and precise about the particular kind of emptiness that can infect the tech world.”— Wall Street Journal

“An exciting debut about the ways young people connect at work and beyond as their lives migrate online.”
— GQ

“Though death dominates the proceedings, New Waves itself is a novel that is very much alive.”
— New York Observer

“What propels the novel forward is its easy readability and cactus-sharp wit.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Nguyen’s ambitious debut is a mash-up of reflection, growth, and rumination on death. In a world that seems increasingly chaotic and divided, Nguyen offers a refuge with his humble, distinct take on race relations in America, and smart analysis of the ways technology shape our personal and public lives.“
— Ploughshares

“Nguyen’s stellar debut is a piercing assessment of young adulthood, the tech industry, and racism.”— Publishers Weekly, starred review ⭐️

“A blistering sendup of startup culture and a sprawling, ambitious, tender debut.” — Kirkus, starred review ⭐️

“If a Venn diagram highlighted the overlaps among racism, sexism, technology, and millennial ennui, Nguyen’s edgy novel would be smack–dab at the center.“ — Booklist, starred review ⭐️

New Waves is a funny, biting critique of tech culture”
SF Weekly

“Readers deeply immersed in our increasingly tech-savvy environment will delight in Nguyen’s piercing take on race and gender issues in the workplace, and the ethical debates swirling around social media sites.“
— Bookpage




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