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100	1		_aTolentino, Jia
245	1	0	_aTrick mirror _breflections on self-delusion _cJia Tolentino
246	3	0	_aReflections on self-delusion
250			_aFirst edition
260			_aNew York _bRandom House _c2019
300			_axi, 303 p.
505	0		_aThe I in internet -- Reality TV me -- Always be optimizing -- Pure heroines -- Ecstasy -- The story of a generation in seven scams -- We come from old Virginia -- The cult of the difficult woman -- I thee dread.
520			_aTrick 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.
650		0	_aWomen _zUnited States _xSocial conditions
650		0	_aPopular culture _zUnited States _xHistory
651		0	_aUnited States _xCivilization _y21st century
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