Too bad she's slogging away in the lower echelons, recently dumped, and now sharing her expensive two-bedroom apartment with her cousin Cheri, a perennial "founder's girlfriend." One afternoon, while performing a server check, Alice discovers some unusual activity, and now she's burdened with two powerful but distressing suspicions: Tangerine's privacy settings aren't as rigorous as the company claims they are, and the person abusing this loophole might be Julia Lerner herself.
But now Russia's asking for more, and Julia's getting nervous.Īlice Lu is a first-generation Chinese-American whose parents are delighted she's working at Tangerine (such a successful company!). In between her executive management (make offers to promising startups, crush them and copy their features if they refuse) self-promotion (check out her latest op-ed in the WSJ, on Work/Life Balance 2.0) and work in gender equality (transfer the most annoying females from her team), she funnels intelligence back to the motherland. By 2018, she's in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America's most famous technology companies. Julia Lerner, a recent university graduate in computer science, is living in Moscow when she's recruited by Russia's largest intelligence agency in 2006. Their search for identity - as individuals and as a family - threatens to tear them apart, until disaster strikes the city they now call home, and they are suddenly forced to find a new way to come together and honor the ties that bind them.Īvailable at Amazon and Bookshop from $16.59 As they push forward, the three adapt to life in America in different ways: Huong gets involved with a Vietnamese car salesman who is also new in town Tuan tries to connect with his heritage by joining a local Vietnamese gang and Binh, now going by Ben, embraces his adopted homeland and his burgeoning sexuality. While she attempts to come to terms with this loss, her sons, Tuan and Binh, grow up in their absent father's shadow, haunted by a man and a country trapped in their memories and imaginations. As she and her boys begin to settle into life in America, she sends letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father.īut with time, Huong realizes she will never see her husband again. When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. Available at Amazon and Bookshop from $13.99
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