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