When Dave Eggers published The Circle in 2013, critics thought the novel’s hyperbolic message about an omnipotent tech company would open the world’s eyes to the harms of Silicon Valley’s growing power. Perhaps there’s as much to learn about tech culture from Family Trust, the debut novel from Kathy Wang, a former product manager for a data-storage company. Family Trust is also a zippy page-turner set in Silicon Valley, but Wang focuses on tech’s middle class.

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