Thank you to @randomhouse for sending me this exhilarating new book which I know will be my number one non-fiction book of 2019. Seriously, you all need to read this book! TRICK MIRROR by Jia Tolentino is a book of essays about pop culture and everything current. These essays present modern life as a con — a funhouse mirror that distorts and hides the truth, says Esquire. Just think how we are all “in on the secrets” of reality tv and social media, yet look at what it’s doing to our psyche by influencing our thoughts and behavior. Tolentino discusses topics such as the scamming culture, yoga culture, Fyre Festival, 2008 financial crisis, current government situations, student debt, female empowerment and more. I was so impressed by the intellect, honesty and wit of this young writer from The New Yorker. Think Joan Didion of the 2000s! Even the talented Zadie Smith gave praise to this book; “It's easy to write about things as you wish they were—or as others tell you they must be. It's much harder to think for yourself, with the minimum of self-delusion. It's even harder to achieve at a moment like this, when our thoughts are subject to unprecedented manipulation, monetization, and surveillance. Yet Tolentino has managed to tell many inconvenient truths in Trick Mirror—and in enviable style. This is a whip-smart, challenging book that will prompt many of us to take a long, hard look in the mirror. It filled me with hope.” If you’ve read it let me know what you thought of it and if you haven’t but hope to, please report back with your thoughts. . . . . . . #trickmirror #jiatolentino #reflectionsonselfdelusion #politicsandprose #essaycollection #bookstyle #fromwhereisit #womenwriters #summerreadinglist https://www.instagram.com/p/B1g_AiInVrR/?igshid=1m9604waq02h