You could call this book a satirical view into an imaginary video game
company in Burnably in the 00's and you'd be pretty bang on. That description, however, doesn't really do justice to the debacle that is JPod.
In true Coupland fashion we are taken through a number of familiar Metro Vancouver places in this alternate reality. We are bombarded with quirky programmers, asshole managers, drug dealers and well meaning but sorta fucked up parents. We have a firsthand view into the disenchanted melancholic Nihilism that is quite commonly, and often correctly, associated with "the young people" of that time.
JPod is as much a story as it is a social commentary.
Do yourself a favour and give this a go.