num_pages: 303
description: Trick 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 in a culture that revolves around the self. 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 heroines 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.
language: English
title: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
publisher: Random House