'Private Citizens' Takes on the Search for Self-Awareness

The idea that self-awareness is a virtue is challenged in the new novel “Private Citizens,” in which the four main characters take self-awareness to new heights. The book tells the story of four unhappy millennials who have graduated from Stanford and are living in the Bay Area in the mid aughts. They have to navigate a world tech bros, activists, hipsters, venture capitalists, and weirdos while trying to find out who they really are.