This excellent book is about democracy, but without democracy being in it. Instead, democracy cries in the shadows of every line,

An unnamed narrator as she helps her editor hide from the Memory Police and cope with an Orwellian world where memories no longer exist.

Leonard Lundell resides in an ugly world, working an ugly job, living an ugly life. Everyone around him is either fat (usually), ugly, old, lazy, or an idiot.

The Circle’s plan is to make each and every person a member, track their movements, film them, and shine a light on government, as well as private citizens

In a futuristic society people are grown as nearly identical embryos & conditioned to remove strong desires. They take a drug called soma to keep them docile.

Some say the book is a thinly disguised biography based on Witherspoon government work. A chapter is leaked, journalists dig into his past in to discredit him