Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Audiobook (Free)

THE CHANGING TIMES Literary nonfiction Book of the entire year

‘A whip-smart, complicated book. It filled me with wish’ Zadie Smith

From one of the brightest youthful chroniclers of US lifestyle comes this dazzling assortment of essays on the internet, the self, feminism and politics.

We you live in the era of the personal, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked about Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion essays, Jia Tolentino, the brand new Yorker’s brightest youthful skill, explores her personal coming of age in this warped and confusing landscape.

In the rise of the web to her own appearance on an early on reality Television show; from her encounters of ecstasy – both religious and chemical substance – to her uneasy engagement with this culture’s endless get towards ‘self-optimisation’; in the phenomenon of the successful American scammer to her generation’s obsession with extravagant weddings, Jia Tolentino writes with style, humour and a fierce clarity about these strangest of that time period.

Pursuing in the footsteps of American luminaries such as Susan Sontag, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, yet using a voice and vision all her have, Jia Tolentino creates using a rare gift for elucidating nuance and intricacy, coupled with a disarming warmth. This debut assortment of her essays announces her exactly the sort of voice we have to hear from right now – and for quite some time to come.