Sophia of Silicon Valley

Sophia of Silicon Valley by Anna Yen, 349 pages

Twenty-something Anna Young is working hard...to find a husband. Yes, she has a degree in finance, and works hard at her successive jobs in banking, law, and technology, but her goal is to find a rich guy to marry so she can move out of her parents' house. Or at least she thinks that's her goal. Everything changes after she goes to work for startup animation company Treehouse, where she's tasked with managing investors and her prickly tech-genius boss Scott Kraft. Suddenly, she's becoming confident and working hard at a job that she enjoys, despite its many challenges.

While she doesn't spell it out, Yen's debut novel obviously has parallels to her life working for Pixar, Tesla, and founding various tech startups. Quince computers, Treehouse and Scott Kraft are thinly veiled stand-ins for Apple, Pixar and Steve Jobs, while Ion and Andre Stark closely parallel Tesla and Elon Musk. That said, it's a great professional coming-of-age book, and given the main character, one that's sorely needed.