![]() Trick Mirror includes nine essays, all having to do with this particular flavour of self-delusion that is unique to this current moment of American identity, culture, technology, and discourse, which have all become extricable from each other in this era: In each essay, Jia writes about the cultural prisms that have shaped her: the rise of the nightmare social internet the American scammer as millennial hero the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter the mandate that everything, including our bodies, should always be getting more efficient and beautiful until we die. 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. ![]() ![]() Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. ![]()
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