Wiener’s decision to move to California would change her life in more ways than one.Īs someone who wants to go into publishing and has already worked for a startup, I was expecting to resonate with a lot of the feelings Anna experienced as she had to decide whether or not working in tech would provide her with a better future than working in a traditional industry. Publishing in New York can be difficult to break into, and Silicon Valley seemed to abound with endless potential. Wiener was living in New York City and working in the publishing industry in her mid-twenties when she decided to embark on a new career path and move to the West Coast to work for a startup. Since then, interest around Silicon Valley and all its inner workings have shown no sign of dying down, which explains some of the excitement leading up to the release of “Uncanny Valley.” When “ Bad Blood” came out in 2018, it achieved enormous popularity for exposing how startup wonder child Theranos and its founder managed to raise millions of dollars for a broken product. The strange lifestyles, eccentric CEOs and terrible workplace conditions and scandals pique everyone’s curiosity in some way.
Silicon Valley and startup culture have enthralled America for years.
Unable to remain stoic in the face of all the hype, I preordered “Uncanny Valley” on Amazon, ensuring it would show up on my porch the day it was released. It has a spot on just about every “ Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2020” list I came across.
Anna Wiener’s debut, a memoir about her time working at startups in Silicon Valley, is one of the privileged few to receive weeks, if not months, of attention ahead of its release. Despite the incredible number of books being published every year, the literary world likes to focus on a small handful at a time.
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