The Circle

The Circle by Dave Eggers is a bestselling dystopian novel that tackles the alarming intrusions of technology in our lives. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. But as Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she begins to see that not everyone is enjoying this utopia – there are those who fall victim to its games.