Silicon Valley is less promised land, more black hole in new novel, 'Ripe'
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Silicon Valley is less promised land, more black hole in new novel, 'Ripe'

NPR  

Silicon Valley is less promised land, more black hole in new novel, 'Ripe' JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: A new novel explores the darker sides of life in Silicon Valley and how one young woman, Cassie, is trying to make sense of her new career, as well as her growing sense of dread. SARAH ROSE ETTER: I know it's a bleak book, but you work really hard to at least make it as enjoyable to read as possible. SUMMERS: That's author Sarah Rose Etter describing her book "Ripe." ETTER: Yeah, I think the parents and their relationship really represent this kind of traditional lower-middle-class, you know, dynamic where the parents are maybe not the most financially literate.

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How Silicon Valley, Sylvia Plath and a killer work ethic inspired a novel like no other
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How Silicon Valley, Sylvia Plath and a killer work ethic inspired a novel like no other

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Sarah Rose Etter, who turned her stint in Silicon Valley into the surreal and open-hearted novel “Ripe,” recently moved to L.A. — and visited Eve Babitz’s resting place at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Etter’s second novel, “Ripe,” out this week, tells the story of Cassie, a young woman who works for a soulless tech startup and tries to ignore the suffering …

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