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Part I (Pages 1 - 55)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Uncanny Valley. Wiener, Anna. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2020.

• This book was written from the first person point of view and in the past tense.

• Anna Wiener was a 25 year-old assistant at a small literary agency in New York City in the early 2010s.

• Wiener liked her job but felt it was running its course and that she had an uncertain future in the world of literature and publishing.

• Wiener also felt that the work was low-paid and she was not as financially secure as she would have liked.

• Wiener was somewhat oblivious to Silicon Valley and the latest advancements in tech and in the tech industry.

• She was aware of the way the tech industry was disrupting the order of other businesses, like publishing, but overall the tech industry...

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