Uncanny Valley

Narrator Suehyla El-Attar has a strong voice for this memoir of a woman's journey into the mostly male world of tech start-ups in Silicon Valley. She is energetic, funny, and swift while telling the story of Anna Wiener's acculturation from book publishing in Manhattan to the dot-com boom in San Francisco. El-Attar establishes the clear, confident persona of Wiener so that the discomfort and disorientation of her new job are in sharp contrast. Listeners are carried along this heady journey from book nerd to tech entrepreneur. It's an enjoyable listening experience as we are taken behind the curtain to see the inner workings of well-funded tech gambles. El-Attar's easy narrative style makes keeps us listening. M.R. � AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine