The Startup Wife

A Novel

De: Tahmima Anam

Narrado por: Tanha Dil

*"A whip-smart, funny, and searing look at the wild world of startups." —Good Morning America Book Club Buzz Pick *Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR

In this “wise and wickedly funny novel about love, creativity, and the limitations of the tech-verse” (Vogue) newlyweds Asha and Cyrus find themselves running one of the most popular social media platforms in the world.

Meet Asha Ray. Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to make a scientific breakthrough when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones.

Before she knows it, Asha has abandoned her lab, exchanged vows with Cyrus, and gone to work at an exclusive tech incubator called Utopia to develop an app called WAI—“We are Infinite.”

WAI creates a sensation, with millions of users logging on every day. Will Cyrus and Asha’s marriage survive the pressures of sudden fame, or will she become overshadowed by the man everyone is calling the new messiah?

This “scathing—and hilarious—take on startup culture, marriage and workaholism” (Politico) explores whether or not technology—with all its limits and possibilities—can disrupt modern love.

Great story, frustrating reader

Ms. Anam’s characters are very three dimensional and the protagonist, Asha, develops her voice (first person narrator) through the events of the story. Indeed, finding her voice in her relationship and owning her considerable expertise and insight in her work is an important theme of the book. The story and the key relationships, including minor characters, are compellingly drawn. However, I found the reader quite frustrating. She frequently (on virtually every page) emphasizes the wrong words in sentences and places pauses or skips them, to unfortunate and often hilarious effect (“a picture of Cyrus with his arms…out in a field”) and it made it hard for me to stick with this book to the end.

Overall, I'm extremely glad I listened to the book

First of all, PLEASE READ THIS BOOK!! It gives clear examples of how most women tend to stifle themselves. As a woman myself, I resonated with Asha's emotional journey so hard. My only super tiny and not that important complaint is about the voice acting. To the voice actress, you beautiful beautiful soul, you have a lovely voice and did a great job, but sometimes it was hard to tell who was talking in the book. It was also pretty obvious where you went back and edited in parts, but overall it was still really good and I don't think anyone could have read Asha better than you.

Young Adult.... at best

Predictable, uninteresting, and mediocre writing for an adult audience. Perhaps this is meant for high school students.

Good story but a hard listen

So many small pauses where (pause) they should not be. I don't know when (pause) the story is taking a (pause) turn, or (pause) the narrator is just reading (pause) normally. Makes it had to listen to. Also the monotone......

However, the story is really good and fun to listen to so it keeps me coming back.

Restarting the Startup Wife Immediately

This book has it all. Love Story. Friendships. Humor. Strong women. Academia. Faux industrial incubator spaces. I related to so much of the relationship dynamics and was introduced to the experience of 1st generation Bengali immigrants in a new way. I am a social scientist by training and I loved every detail of Wai. The author teases an idea for a tv show adaptation and I am HERE for it. I love discovering this book the day it came out but hate the wait for more.