Early in Kevin Nguyen’s debut novel New Waves, his protagonists find themselves at a crossroads: Lucas, an Asian man, and Margo, a Black woman, are being pushed out of their mostly-white tech company. Margo, a talented engineer, decides to fight back; she writes a script to duplicate the company’s user database, and convinces Lucas to join her while she…
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