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Ripe - Sarah Rose Etter

A surrealistic tale of sexism, anxiety, and inequity in 2020's Silicon Valley

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Gabriel Frieberg
May 19, 2023
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Book Review: 'Ripe,' by Sarah Rose Etter - The New York Times

Ripe is a raw and searing tale about a young female tech worker named Cassie in 2020 Silicon Valley. The plot is fairly quotidian, but what it is certainly not is a pulsing, menacing black hole that …

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