num_pages: 272
description: A woman in a post-election tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this provocative and subversive debut novel that examines social media sex feminism and fiction the connection they've all promised and the lies they help us tell.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 relievedhe was always a little distantand 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.
language: English
title: Fake Accounts
publisher: Catapult