Riding High in April

<b>Featured in POPSUGAR Best Books of 2021 * SheReads Best Book Club Picks of Fall * Women.com * Brit & Co. Fifteen New Books to Read on your Summer Vacation</b> <p/> Inside the rising tech microcosms of Seoul Singapore Japan and India far from the mendacity of Silicon Valley a serial tech entrepreneur pursues a last-ditch attempt to build something great: COMPASS an open-source network platform that Microsoft has labeled reckless. At stake are his reputation his dwindling bank account and his fifteen-year relationship with the only woman he's ever loved&#8212a woman in the midst of reckoning with who she is and what really matters to her in the face of the narcissism and destructiveness of the technology world. She shows up in Seoul in a big bold move to be with him--only to find that living in Asia reshapes her in intangible unexpected ways. <p/>Taut and richly layered <i>Riding High in April</i> is a powerful evocation of our contemporary tech moment a revealing exploration of resilience and the pursuit of something unattainable and a moving story of love friendship and letting go.