After Ripe
The Employees by Olga Ravn
Ripe didn't just capture millennial burnout—it made that black hole of depression feel like the only honest thing in Silicon Valley's glossy nightmare. For readers who found catharsis in Cassie's refusal to pretend ambition isn't hollow, who craved prose that cuts through Instagram-filtered success stories to expose the void beneath, there's a spaceship waiting where the work is just as dehumanizing and the isolation cuts even deeper.