Ripe, by Sarah Rose Etter

Etter's disquieting novel depicts San Fransisco as a center of hyper-capitalist torment. In tense, steadily unraveling prose, the narrative exposes the extent of Silicon Valley's rotten underbelly through 33-year-old Cassie's struggle to survive in a fast-paced startup while also facing California wildfires, an impending pandemic, toxic relationships, and the despair whose physical manifestations have haunted her since childhood.