The Social Network meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this dual-narrative novel about a group of college friends who found a social media company in the early days of the internet, their scandalous falling out, and the 10-year anniversary expos├й that forces them back together again.
When Maggie Tang arrives as a transfer-student at UC Berkeley in 2005, she has no idea how her life is about to change. In the hallway of her dingy apartment building, she meets Adam, Charles, and Hari, the friends with whom sheтАЩll create Circle, the worldтАЩs first major social media platform. But navigating her ambitions alongside love and friendship isnтАЩt so simple, and when they inevitably collide, Maggie exits Circle in dramatic fashion.
A decade later, Maggie is struggling with a new professional venture when she receives an invitation to celebrate CircleтАЩs 10th anniversary on a private island in Norway, with the three people she has tried hardest to forget. While sheтАЩs still bitter about how things ended, her company desperately needs the publicity, and deep down, Maggie canтАЩt resist the handwritten plea at the bottomтАФCome, please.
Between boat rides and adventurous hikes, bit by bit the reunion begins to feel like old times. But the journalist writing a retrospective on Circle is eager for a scoop, which means they canтАЩt tiptoe around the past forever. And when a new truth is revealed about their fall-out all those years ago, Maggie will have to decide whether to run again or fight for a second chance with the people she once loved most.