Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER € €œFrom <i>The New Yorker</i>€s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.€<i>€"Esquire</i><br><i> </i><br>€œA whip-smart, challenging book.€€"Zadie Smith € €œJia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.€<i>€"Vulture</i></b><br><br><b><b><b><b>FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE€S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK € </b></b></b>NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND <i>HARVARD CRIMSON </i>AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <i>The New York Times Book Review </i>€ <i>Time </i>€ <i>Chicago Tribune</i> € <i>The Washington Post</i> € NPR € <i>Variety</i> € <i>Esquire </i>€ <i>Vox</i> € <i>Elle </i>€ <i>Glamour</i> € <i>GQ</i> € <i>Good Housekeeping </i>€ <i>The Paris Review</i> € <i>Paste</i> € <i>Town & Country </i>€ <i>BookPage </i>€ <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> € <i>BookRiot </i>€ <i>Shelf Awareness</i></b><br><br> 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.<br><br> <i>Trick Mirror</i> 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 heroine€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 Tolentino€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, <i>Trick Mirror</i> is an instant classic of the worst decade yet.<br><br><b>FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY</b>