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003			OCoLC
005			20220303120412.0
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010			_a 2021012954
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019			_a1259401923 _a1297039128
020			_a9780593313794 _q(trade paperback)
020			_a0593313798 _q(trade paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1243019134 _z(OCoLC)1259401923 _z(OCoLC)1297039128
042			_apcc
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092			_aPEK, _bJANE
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aPek, Jane, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe verifiers / _cJane Pek.
264		1	_aNew York : _bVintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022
300			_a358 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"A Vintage Books original."
520			_aClaudia 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.
520			_a"Claudia Lin is looking at a cliched 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aMurder _xInvestigation _vFiction. _9463
650		0	_aOnline dating _vFiction. _999059
650		0	_aChinese American women _vFiction. _956334
650		0	_aChinese Americans _vFiction. _923315
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction. _93570
650		0	_aSecrecy _vFiction.
650		0	_aLesbians _vFiction. _931514
651		0	_aManhattan (New York, N.Y.) _vFiction. _919224
655		7	_aLesbian fiction. _2lcgft _9304818
655		7	_aGay fiction. _2lcgft _9193612
655		7	_aHumorous fiction. _2lcgft _9326
655		7	_aDetective and mystery fiction. _2lcgft _9464
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _92408
655		0	_aLGBTQ+.
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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