The Verifiers, Pek - B

           This is an intriguing debut novel narrated by a young Chinese-American woman who describes the hilariously complicated details of life for immigrant Chinese families in NYC. Claudia Li goes to work for a firm that verifies, for those on matchmaking sites, what is true and what is false about whoever it is they are exchanging data with. She concludes that one of their clients has been murdered and pursues a personal investigation. The dead client was a journalist who had discovered that the websites were using bots and synths to enhance their numbers and to elicit more data from their customers. Although it bogs down at times in too much technology, it's still a blast to read.