{"id":12367,"date":"2021-05-19T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=12367"},"modified":"2021-05-18T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T13:58:07","slug":"cant-wait-wednesday-may-19-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/cant-wait-wednesday-may-19-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t Wait Wednesday | May 19, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Wednesday! Originally created by Jill at\u00a0Breaking The Spine,\u00a0<\/a>Waiting on Wednesday<\/strong> was adapted to Can\u2019t\u00a0Wait<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>by Tressa at\u00a0Wishful Endings.<\/a>\u00a0It is a weekly meme that spotlights upcoming releases that I’m eagerly anticipating!<\/p>\n

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This week\u2019s Can\u2019t Wait Wednesday book is\u2026<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n\"Can’tImpostor Syndrome<\/strong> by Kathy Wang<\/a>
Published on<\/strong> May 25, 2021 by Custom House<\/a>
Genres:<\/strong> Adult<\/a>, Contemporary<\/a>, Thriller<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 368
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In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she\u2019s recruited by Russia\u2019s largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she\u2019s in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America\u2019s most famous technology companies. 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<\/em>, 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. But now Russia's asking for more, and Julia\u2019s getting nervous.
\nAlice is a first generation Chinese American whose parents are delighted she\u2019s working at Tangerine (such a successful company!). Too bad she\u2019s slogging away in the lower echelons, recently dumped, and now sharing her expensive two-bedroom apartment with her cousin Cheri, a perennial \u201cfounder\u2019s girlfriend\u201d. One afternoon, while performing a server check, Alice discovers some unusual activity, and now she\u2019s burdened with two powerful but distressing suspicions: Tangerine\u2019s privacy settings aren\u2019t as rigorous as the company claims they are, and the person abusing this loophole might be Julia Lerner herself. 
\nThe closer Alice gets to Julia, the more Julia questions her own loyalties. Russia may have placed her in the Valley, but she's the one who built her career; isn\u2019t she entitled to protect the lifestyle she\u2019s earned? Part page-turning cat-and-mouse chase, part sharp and hilarious satire, Impostor Syndrome <\/em>is a shrewdly-observed examination of women in tech, Silicon Valley hubris, and the rarely fulfilled but ever-attractive promise of the American Dream.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t