Local author Kathy Wang seeks to captivate readers once again with her new novel, âImpostor Syndrome,â released May 25 by publisher HarperCollins.
Wang, a longtime Los Altos resident, said she wanted to give readers her sincere view of life here through her book, an espionage thriller set in Silicon Valley.
âI wrote this book earnestly about the things I truly felt made America a place that immigrants wanted to move to,â she said. âSo even though itâs being presented as a satire or a thriller, in my heart itâs really about America and why my parents and people from all over the world want to move here and why I hope it remains a place like that.â
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Jessica Zack May 24, 2021Updated: May 24, 2021, 7:25 am
Kathy Wang of Los Altos has written a follow-up to “Family Trust,” her acclaimed 2018 debut novel. Photo: Stephen Lam, The Chronicle
Kathy Wang was well into writing a follow-up to “Family Trust,” her acclaimed 2018 debut novel about a Chinese family in Silicon Valley, when she was driving near her home in Los Altos and was suddenly gripped by a new idea.
“What if one of the world’s most powerful executives in tech was a spy?” she said about the plot of her new book, “Impostor Syndrome,” out Tuesday, May 25.
That seed of an idea, prompted by news stories about an uptick in corporate espionage among tech startups and venture capital firms, led Wang to ditch her late-stage manuscript two years ago.