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
