Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia TolentinoA Times book of the yearA Guardian book of the year 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 in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes about the cultural prisms that have shaped her: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the

And how are the gods connected to it all

He portrays two strangers

why don't you too join in the fun

Then comes the first ugly death and the end of all Alexander's doubts

and bored housewives

Except for the mysterious deaths of previous lawyers with the firm

and the quest for Self-realisation

At this very fine and disturbing novel's core is a compelling meditation on love in all its ramifications' Herald'Keeps us guessing until almost the last page' Financial Times'Few writers have sustained such an engagement with the classic (Anglophone) canon

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