The Circle by Dave Eggers
The Circle by Dave Eggers Mae Holland had moved back in with her parents after graduating from Carleton. She was $234,000 in school loan debt and took the first job offered to her at the utility company. It had been eighteen months since she started that job and she hated every second of it. Arriving on the campus of the Circle was the pivotal moment in her life. The Circle was the most powerful internet company in the world, employing ten thousand people on its San Vicente campus, as the driving force of the electronic age. Annie, Mae’s best friend since college, was one the Gang of 40 that consisted of the most crucial minds in the company. TruYou was the driving force for the Circle. With TruYou users had one identity, one account and one password for everything they needed on the web. It was the pathway to vanquishing false identity and everything you needed to accomplish you could, with TruYou. The goal was to one day close the Circle, making life transparent to all. I