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Impostor Syndrome

von Kathy Wang

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"In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she's recruited by Russia's largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she's in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America's 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, 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's getting nervous. Alice Lu is a first generation Chinese American whose parents are delighted she's working at Tangerine (such a successful company!). Too bad she's slogging away in the lower echelons, recently dumped, and now sharing her expensive two-bedroom apartment with her cousin Cheri, a perennial "founder's girlfriend". One afternoon, while performing a server check, Alice discovers some unusual activity, and now she's burdened with two powerful but distressing suspicions: Tangerine's privacy settings aren't as rigorous as the company claims they are, and the person abusing this loophole might be Julia Lerner herself. The 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't she entitled to protect the lifestyle she's earned? Part page-turning cat-and-mouse chase, part sharp and hilarious satire, Impostor Syndrome is a shrewdly-observed examination of women in tech, Silicon Valley hubris, and the rarely fulfilled but ever-attractive promise of the American Dream."--Publisher.… (mehr)
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Read this in two days at the beach. Perfect page turner for that kid of setting — interesting but not too intricate. It has a melancholy vibe to it that is a lot less “adrenaline / spy thriller” than I expected and j mean that in a good way.

If I had a complaint it would be that the details of how our main character got from untrained student to COO are missing. I’m not sure we really needed them for the story the author chose to tell but I am curious and maybe would want to read that in a different book.

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  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
Thanks to Goodreads for the review copy. This book helped me get out of a reading slump. I enjoyed the different chapters about Julia, Alice, and Leo. The other characters were okay. I learned a lot about being a spy and working for a a huge company. ( )
  DKnight0918 | Dec 23, 2023 |
Imagine a book about Russian spies in present-day America written by someone who knows nothing about world politics or international politi-social relationships. Imagine if someone tried to give Black Widow the Fifty Shades of Gray treatment.

This book is ridiculous. It imagines all Russians are idiots and incapable of maintaining their spy network. Like the KGB suddenly turned into McDonald’s. The main conceit of the plot is that this orphan is trained to become a Russian spy and inserted as the vice-CEO of a Facebook/Google company. They give her a rich house, rich family, rich husband, everything anyone could ever want. And then they expect her to betray all that by slipping secrets to them. And you wonder why she doesn’t want to?

Besides that, the book is so negative. I mean, I hate rich people too, but even I’m not this bitter about it. Everything out of this author’s narration is so acerbic, so disdainful, so resentful that it’s no fun to read. There are zero people to root for. This Russian spy woman has a gorgeous house, gorgeous status in life, position of power, doctor husband, beautiful baby, goes to huge billionaire parties–basically the American dream–and there’s nothing she can’t find to disparage about. Everything is a power struggle. If it’s not the people at the bottom trying to eat you up, it’s the people at the top who’d sooner crap on you than take a look at you. And men! Men, men, men. Men are so evil. Men are such devious jackasses. Men are always trying to keep women down. Men have no respect for women. Men! What a bunch of bastards.

So the combination of an author with no knowledge of the subject matter she’s writing about, plus a style that brings no joy to the table (you can’t call it satire, that’s a cheap excuse). And I haven’t mentioned the poor pacing, the poor plotting. Nothing happens in this book, and if it does happen, it’s off-screen. Would you rather read a book about two people staring at a chessboard, or about the actual movement of the chess piece? Throw this one away. ( )
  theWallflower | Nov 16, 2023 |
By the end of this book, I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to! I found myself really rooting for the characters, which to me is a mark of success, especially when they are as ethically gray as this cast is. This is sort of a mix of international-relations thriller and tech-industry satire. If that sounds interesting to you, definitely check it out! ( )
  annikaleigh89 | Jul 26, 2023 |
I was a bit disappointed in this book. First, I found much of it difficult to follow as characters were introduced -- but the entire 'technology' business was hard for me and it took away from the story (from my perspective). I also thought the end was 'eh'-- as the chapter just stopped. I do not believe that everything needed to be tied up in a nice bow or anything -- but a little more work into the final chapter of the characters would have been helpful While I did like Julia the main character -- and the book did remind me of "Charm School" by Nelson Demille-- the missing piece was I would have liked a richer history of the characters. I felt that some of the characters were written with very little development (i.e., Julia's husband -- as a cardiologist was depicted as a 'slug' and I had difficulty truly picturing this character married to her). As for Alice, as a first generation Chinese American -- I liked her relationship with her parents -- as parents work hard and want the best for their children -- I believed the scene in the 'farmers market' with her mom selling her noddle's was more realistic and good character development. The rest of Alice, not so much -- for her age I thought she was quite immature in many of her actions.

I read the book in under 3 days -- as it was intriguing and kept my interest -- I was not surprised by the different direction the book took. ( )
  thekellyfamily | Jul 17, 2022 |
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"In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she's recruited by Russia's largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she's in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America's 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, 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's getting nervous. Alice Lu is a first generation Chinese American whose parents are delighted she's working at Tangerine (such a successful company!). Too bad she's slogging away in the lower echelons, recently dumped, and now sharing her expensive two-bedroom apartment with her cousin Cheri, a perennial "founder's girlfriend". One afternoon, while performing a server check, Alice discovers some unusual activity, and now she's burdened with two powerful but distressing suspicions: Tangerine's privacy settings aren't as rigorous as the company claims they are, and the person abusing this loophole might be Julia Lerner herself. The 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't she entitled to protect the lifestyle she's earned? Part page-turning cat-and-mouse chase, part sharp and hilarious satire, Impostor Syndrome is a shrewdly-observed examination of women in tech, Silicon Valley hubris, and the rarely fulfilled but ever-attractive promise of the American Dream."--Publisher.

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