A 2013 staff fiction favorite of the year recommended by Susie, Nate, Connie and Ellen J.

Susie writes, Last fall, Dave Eggers came out with this novel, which detailed the story of Mae, a young woman who starts work at a company, the Circle, that could be described as a combination of Amazon, Facebook and Google, with a little dose of the NSA. The story on the surface is a fast-paced cautionary tale about how Mae ultimately turns her entire life, physically and emotionally, over to the ever-connected machinations of the Circle. Every time I come across someone who has read The Circle, they inevitably suggest that it just seemed “too much” -- that no one would turn over their whole existence to an ever-present online behemoth. Yet, once you begin to engage in discussion about the various scenes in the novel, it becomes apparent that, indeed, what feels a bit like science fiction at first read, is really not so far from reality right now! (Think drones and self-driving automobiles!)

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