Tech Wives

The dazzling, daring new novel from Kirstin Chen, internationally bestselling author of Counterfeit

'Deft, unexpected, funny, heartbreaking and utterly of the moment’ Andrew Sean Greer

'Every bit as much a novel about marriage as it is a thrilling peek behind the curtain of the Silicon Valley elite' Rufi Thorpe, author of Margo's Got Money Troubles

All the money. All the luxury. None of the power.

Sam and Cecily meet in college. Fifteen years later, they are married to two of the most powerful men in tech.

Sam’s husband promises he’ll never be like the other self-obsessed, power-hungry pioneers. He wants the best for his workers. He’ll never buy a mega yacht.

Cecily’s husband, Winston, is responsible for the biggest online store the world has ever seen. They both know he’d be nowhere without her ideas, and even if the world conveniently ignores her, the exquisite life they’ve built together makes it all worth it.

But whispers are starting online about the missteps of both men. Terrible rumours of what they are capable of begin to surface – and soon each woman must make the ultimate choice. But how do you leave a man who runs the world?

From the acclaimed author of COUNTERFEIT comes a daring novel that uncovers the ugly side of the beautiful life.

Reviews

‘Tech Wives is such a reading pleasure! Deft, unexpected, funny, heartbreaking and utterly of the moment’ Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less

'What a page-turner. A compellingly imagined glimpse behind the curtain of the lives of two women and their powerful spouses. I was gripped' Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things

‘Kirstin Chen has created another dazzling, delicious page-turner. Tech Wives invites us into the fairytale world of tech billionaires, and provides both a sharp deconstruction of the genius-boy myth … an ambitious, riveting, and masterfully written coming-of-age story of two women and the friendship between them. I loved it, and I can’t wait to share it with my dearest friends’ Angie Kim

‘Tech Wives is every bit as much a novel about marriage as it is a thrilling peek behind the curtain of the Silicon Valley elite. With nuanced psychological acuity and drastically higher stakes, Chen crafts dizzying moral dilemmas and sets the world spinning in this dazzling novel’ Rufi Thorpe, author of Margo's Got Money Troubles

About the author

Kirstin Chen is the author of Counterfeit, which was a New York Times bestseller, Soy Sauce for Beginners and Bury What We Cannot Take. Born and raised in Singapore, she currently lives in San Francisco.