Mobility Lounge - the novel

At the frontiers of global think, Singapore is San Francisco, San Francisco is London, London is Bangkok.

Van is a computer animator who aspires to creating the perfect cartoon spider. When he is served eviction notice on his low-rent apartment, he is forced to secure his bohemian perch by taking the extreme recourse of marrying a complete stranger.

Renée, the French traveler he meets on the internet, is drawn into his web. As the attraction ignites, their relationship falls apart, and Van is forced to seek not fame but riches by joining a mysterious start-up with its headquarters in virtual space.

The software architect, K.P. Nair, who arranges everything for DQI (Digital Queen International), plots to trade places with Van—including a not-so-subtle play for Renée, Van's wife of convenience.

Personal loyalties must endure misunderstandings and stubbornness in this wry and tender debut novel about the boom and bust era of the late 1990s.

From an airport city outside Amsterdam, to Silicon Valley, France, India, and beyond, Mobility Lounge reveals the information and its consequences in this all-too-real world of global desire.