Tahmima Anam’s ‘The Startup Wife’ explores modern-day marriage in competition driven world

It revolves around a coder Asha Ray, and her high school crush-turned-husband Cyrus Jones who develop a hit social media networking app.

June 23, 2021 07:02 am | Updated 07:02 am IST - New Delhi

A new “feminist satire” by award-winning author Tahmima Anam explores the dynamics of a modern day marriage when in a highly competition driven world.

The novel, titled The Startup Wife has been published by Penguin Random House India. It revolves around a coder Asha Ray, and her high school crush-turned-husband Cyrus Jones who develop a hit social media networking app. However, with the man receiving most of the attention, the woman struggles to find her voice, putting their marriage to test.

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According to the British-Bangladeshi writer, who also sits on the board of ROLI, a London-based music tech company founded by her husband Roland Lamb, the novel is a “coming-of-rage, anti-rom-com feminist satire”.

“I’ve been dreaming of writing The Startup Wife for nearly a decade, and I’m thrilled that it’s finally seeing the light of day. It’s the story of a brilliant computer coder, Asha Ray, and how she takes on the male-dominated tech world, achieves great success, and yet somehow finds herself losing her voice in the process,” Anam told PTI .

“It asks whether Asha can take charge of her own power, and have the confidence to break through all that is holding her back,” she added.

Anam’s published work includes A Golden Age (winner of the Best First Book in the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2008), its sequel The Good Muslim (long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2011), and The Bones of Grace .

According to the publishers, Anam’s latest is a “gripping, blistering novel”.

“Come for the radical vision of human connection, stay for the wickedly funny feminist look at startup culture and modern partnership,” it said in a statement.

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