Delaney and Mae meet for a hike to a cliff with a view of a waterfall. Delaney takes a detour to Oregon to visit Professor Agarwal and is shocked to learn that she has accepted a job at The Every. After the meeting, Mae proposes that they go hiking alone in Idaho.

However, he later tells her that he is part of an organized resistance within The Every, with goals similar to Delaney's.ĭelaney eventually is invited to meet with Mae Holland, the CEO of The Every (and the protagonist of The Circle). Delany realizes that she has been unable to hide her true intent from Gabriel. He is using the truth-detector application that grew out of Delaney's interview prototype. One of the employees Delaney meets is Gabriel Chu, who eventually subjects her to a private interrogation to determine why she is at The Every. During this time, she is receiving increasingly distressed letters from her college professor, Meena Agarwal, an anti-monopolist who is strongly opposed to The Every and is upset that Delaney is working there. Wes's stature at The Every continues to grow, and he tells Delany that he is no longer interested in working against the company. However, to her surprise and dismay, each idea is well-received by the public. During each of these rotations she proposes ideas, brainstormed by Wes and her, that are meant to be so invasive and offensive to the public that they would damage the reputation of The Every once they are released. As part of her initial time at the company, Delaney is rotated among different teams. This also results in Wes Makazian being hired as a developer at The Every. As part of her interview she enlists her friend and housemate Wes Makazian to create a prototype for an application that can determine whether a person you are talking to is telling the truth.ĭelaney is hired, and the company sets about productizing the idea she presented during her interview. Her goal is to destroy the company from within, although she does not have a solid plan. Wells feels the company is too powerful, and she joins with the intent of destroying it from the inside.ĭelaney Wells, a former forest ranger from Idaho, interviews at The Every, a software company headquartered on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. It tells the story of a woman named Delaney Wells who joins The Every, a company formed by a merger between The Circle and an e-commerce giant known as 'the jungle' (a thinly-disguised version of Amazon). The novel is a sequel to Eggers's 2013 novel The Circle. The Every is a 2021 dystopian novel written by American author Dave Eggers. Print (hardcover & paperback), audiobook, e-book

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