A NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE
"An invigorating work, deadly precise in its skewering of people, places and things . . . Stylish, despairing and very funny, Fake Accounts . . . adroitly maps the dwindling gap between the individual and the world." —Katie Kitamura, The New York Times Book Review
A woman in a tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this “absolutely brilliant take on the bizarre and despicable ways the internet has warped our perception of reality” (Elle, One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year).
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 relieved--he was always a little
distant--and 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.
