The Default World
The Default World
Kanakia, Naomi
product information
Condition: New, UPC: 9781558613164, Type: Paperback ,
join & start selling
description
exploit a group of wealthy roommates, only to fall under the spell of their glamorous, hedonistic lifestyle in tech-bubble San Francisco.


Years after fleeing San Francisco and getting sober, Jhanvi has made a life for herself working at a grocery co-op and saving for her surgeries. But when her friend (and sometimes more) Henry mentions that he and his techie festival-goer friends spent $100,000 to transform a warehouse basement into a sex dungeon, Jhanvi starts wondering if there's a way to exploit these gullible idiots. She returns to San Francisco, hatching a plan to marry Henry for his company's generous healthcare benefits.


Jhanvi enters a world of beautiful, decadent fire-eaters and their lavish sex parties. But as her pretensions to cynicism and control start to fade, she develops a Gatsbyesque attraction to these happy young people and their bold claims of unconditional love. But do any of her privileged new friends really like or accept her? Her financial needs expose the limits of a community built on limitless self-expression, and soon she has to choose between doing what's right, and doing what's right for her.


This darkly funny novel skewers privileged leftist millennial tech culture, and asks whether "found family" is just another of the twenty-first century's broken promises.

reviews

Be the first to write a review

member goods

No member items were found under this heading.

notems store

The Big Green Tent

by Ulitskaya, Ludmila

Paperback /Paperback

$18.00

The Puma Blues: The Complete ...

by Murphy, Stephen

Hardcover /Hardcover

$26.21

Companion Piece

by Smith, Ali

Paperback /Paperback

The Gift

by Browning, Barbara

Paperback /Paperback

$11.96

listens & views

PUM'KIN DIARIES

by LOTZ OF MUSIC

COMPACT DISC

$16.75

PIANO SONATAS 1-3

by TIPPETT / DONOHOE

COMPACT DISC

$18.49

21 HITS

by BANDA HERMANOS DE SALAMANCA

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$10.99

CORPSE BREED SYNDROME

by 5 STAR GRAVE

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$15.75

Return Policy

All sales are final

Shipping

No special shipping considerations available.
Shipping fees determined at checkout.
promoting relevance through notable postings ]
share it, buy it, sell it ]

A notem is a post that highlights an experience, idea, topic of interest, an event ... whatever a member believes worthy of discussion. Each notem becomes a pathway by which to make meaningful connections.

notems is a free, global social network that rewards members by the number and quality of notems they post.

notemote® © . Privacy Policy. Developed by Hartmann Software Group