The Books You Turned to in 2022
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Book Review - What's the Story of a Boy?
The book is the story of a boy who's born on this coconut grove in the south of India in the 1950s. He grows up under difficult circumstances he belongs to the Dalit group, which is oppressed in India. He moves to the US for graduate school to study engineering, and then starts to tech company in the 1970s that ends up zooming into the future as the world's biggest tech company. And so, if you look at me even further into a sort of imagined near future, he ends up kind of engineering a takeover of the world government through through his company essentially. It spans all these different time periods from the 1950s in India to the 1970s in Seattle
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