David is a freshly minted NYU grad who's working a not-quite-entry-level
job, falling in love, and telling his parents he's studying for the
LSAT. He starts a Tumblr blog, typing out posts on his BlackBerry under
his desk--a blog that becomes wildly popular and brings him to the
attention of major media (The New York Times) as well as the White
House. But his outward fame doesn't quell his confusion about the world
and his direction in it.
This semiautobiographical debut is a coming-of-age story perfect for our
time. In A Sense of Direction author Gideon Lewis-Kraus's words, "If
Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early
twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written
something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now
generation."