· New Waves by Kevin Nguyen. Kevin Nguyen’s debut novel, New Waves, explores grief not through the prisms of ruminating and loss, but rather through their absence. The book follows Lucas, a Vietnamese customer service rep with alcoholism, who helps Margo, his best friend, drinking buddy, and crush, steal user info from the tech company where she’s the sole Black employee. The result is New Waves, a sleek, stylish novel that weaves between disaffection and desire.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees “Kevin Nguyen’s New Waves collapses every tired distinction about the internet. In this novel of relationships, race, and loss, everything is both permanent and ephemeral—technology both preserves and buries culture, 4/5(84). · New Waves: QA with Kevin Nguyen. Mai Tran. May 8, Perhaps appropriate to New Waves' online setting, I first came across Kevin Nguyen’s debut novel when a Goodreads algorithm suggested it to me. The book follows the friendship of Lucas, a Vietnamese tech employee whom Nguyen describes as “bumbly,” and Margo, a decisive black woman at the top of her bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins.
Kevin Nguyen's New Waves. One World. And though death dominates the proceedings, New Waves itself is a novel that is very much alive. Part of this comes from the setting; while the tech industry. With a fresh voice, biting humor, and piercing observations about human nature, Kevin Nguyen brings an insider's knowledge of the tech industry to this imaginative novel. A pitch-perfect exploration of race and startup culture, secrecy and surveillance, social media and friendship, New Waves asks: How well do we really know one another? NEW WAVES By Kevin Nguyen. It can be thrilling, in a novel, to encounter a cautious, observant narrator in proximity to a supporting character who is everything he's not: charismatic, reckless.
New Waves: QA with Kevin Nguyen. Mai Tran. May 8, Perhaps appropriate to New Waves' online setting, I first came across Kevin Nguyen’s debut novel when a Goodreads algorithm suggested it to me. The book follows the friendship of Lucas, a Vietnamese tech employee whom Nguyen describes as “bumbly,” and Margo, a decisive black woman at the top of her field. The question sits at the center of Kevin Nguyen’s first novel, “New Waves,” which begins as a workplace caper before spinning out like the fractals in a Mandelbrot set. Narrated by a young. In Kevin Nguyen's 'New Waves,' the daring heist carried out by two employees of a tech startup becomes secondary to an examination of race, loss and friendship in an increasingly online world.
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