A NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
EDITORS' CHOICE * A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
An invigorating work, deadly precise in its skewering of people, places
and things . . . Stylish, despairing and very funny, Fake Accounts . .
. adroitly maps the dwindling gap between the individual and the world.
--Katie Kitamura, The New York Times Book Review
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*A woman in a tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous
online conspiracy theorist in this "absolutely brilliant take on the
bizarre and despicable ways the internet has warped our perception of
reality" (Elle, One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year).
On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, a young woman snoops through
her boyfriend's phone and makes a startling discovery: he's an anonymous
internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent
in internet fakery, irony, and outrage, she's not exactly shocked by the
revelation. Actually, she's relieved--he was always a little
distant--and she plots to end their floundering relationship while on a
trip to the Women's March in DC. But this is only the first in a series
of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online
lies.
Suddenly left with no reason to stay in New York and increasingly
alienated from her friends and colleagues, our unnamed narrator flees to
Berlin, embarking on her own cycles of manipulation in the deceptive
spaces of her daily life, from dating apps to expat meetups, open-plan
offices to bureaucratic waiting rooms. She begins to think she can't
trust anyone--shouldn't the feeling be mutual?
Narrated with seductive confidence and subversive wit, Fake Accounts
challenges the way current conversations about the self and community,
delusions and gaslighting, and fiction and reality play out in the
internet age.
