The verifiers
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New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022].
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A Vintage Books original edition.
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9780593313794, 0593313798
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Published
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022].
Edition
A Vintage Books original edition.
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358 pages ; 21 cm
Street Date
2202
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English
ISBN
9780593313794, 0593313798

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Claudia Lin is used to disregarding her fractious family's model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She's also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls--and that she's just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis on Jane Austen, Claudia believes she's landed her ideal job. But when a client goes missing, Claudia breaks protocol to investigate--and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit. Part literary mystery, part family story, The Verifiers is a clever and incisive examination of how technology shapes our choices, and the nature of romantic love in the digital age.
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"Claudia Lin is looking at a clichéd post-college future as a chronically underemployed English major--much to the consternation of her mother, who wants her to settle down and start dating a nice Chinese boy already; her brother, who pushes her to follow in his model-minority footsteps; and her sister, who can't get over Claudia's privileged place in their mother's affections. But Claudia is used to keeping secrets from her family. Such as the fact that she prefers girls--and that she's embarking on an unsuitable but supremely fun career. Veracity, a two-and-a-half-person detective agency that operates out of a Manhattan townhouse and verifies people's online dating personas, has recruited Claudia via an online murder mystery game. A lifelong reader of mystery novels, Claudia takes to her new job sniffing out cheaters and catfishers like a latter-day lovechild of Elizabeth Bennet and Sherlock Holmes. But when one of her very first clients turns up dead, Claudia breaks with Veracity's protocols to investigate what happened, unconvinced by the story everyone else believes. The deeper she digs, the more she discovers that nothing--her client, the death, the dating platforms that claim to know us better than we know ourselves, Veracity, even her own family--may be as it seems. Part literary mystery, part family story, The Verifiers is a witty and incisive examination of how technology shapes our choices, and what role romantic love plays in the digital age"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Pek, J. (2022). The verifiers (A Vintage Books original edition.). Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

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Pek, Jane. 2022. The Verifiers. Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Pek, Jane. The Verifiers Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022.

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Pek, Jane. The Verifiers A Vintage Books original edition., Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022.

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