The Big Chihuahua

For readers of Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Egan, and Nathan Hill, this is a literary novel with bite, heart, and a voice all its own.

When Emma Shapiro arrives home from college armed with a biting intellect and a playlist of protest songs, she expects a summer of healing with her enigmatic father. What she finds instead is a swirl of buried secrets, aging revolutionaries, Silicon Valley delusions, and a nation teetering on the edge of reinvention—or collapse.

Told through a kaleidoscope of v...