Engineering a Love Story: A Novel

It’s the year 2000—dot—coms, Bush v. Gore, and sky—high San Francisco rents. But while the country swoons with irrational exuberance, Chelsea Lefevre’s life is deflating faster than a tech bubble.

She’d had everything she thought she was supposed to want: a house on Boston’s North Shore, exquisite wedding china, a Waspy mother—in—law. A safe, steady marriage.

But after a mortifying slip—up, Chelsea finds herself heading into the 21st century alone. Her lifeboat? A new job advising tech execs,...