Capturing the anxious self-aware mood of young college grads in the noughties Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century The novel's four whip-smart narrators
- idealistic Cory Internet-lurking Will awkward Henrik & vicious Linda
- are torn between fixing the world & cannibalizing it In boisterous prose that ricochets between humour & pain the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Area's maze of tech start-ups protestors gentrifiers karaoke bars house parties & cultish self-help seminars washing up in each other's lives once again