Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ â€œFromÂ The New Yorkerâ€™sÂ beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.â€â€”Esquire
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â€œA whip-smart, challenging book.â€â€”Zadie Smith â€¢ â€œJia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.â€â€”Vulture

Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity.

Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroineâ€™s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentinoâ€™s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet.

Praise for Trick Mirror

â€œJia Tolentino is the best young essayist at work in the United States, one Iâ€™ve consistently admired and learned from, and I was exhilarated to get a whole lot of her at once inÂ Trick Mirror. In these nine essays, she rethinks troubling ingredients of modern life, from the internet to mind-altering drugs to wedding culture. All through the book,Â single sentences flash like lightningÂ to show something familiar in a startling way, but she also builds extended arguments with her usual, unusual blend of lyricism and skepticism. In the end, we haveÂ a picture of America that was as missing as it was needed.â€â€”Rebecca Solnit, author ofÂ Men Explain Things to Me
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-08-06
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2019-08-06
Format	Kindle eBook

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

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