Author: Diana Tietjens Meyers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190208333
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Harmful, culturally prevalent imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood constrains women's self-determination. Gender in the Mirror proposes alternative imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood and advances an account of feminist discursive politics that takes on the challenge of neutralizing patriarchal imagery.
Gender in the Mirror
Author: Diana Tietjens Meyers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190208333
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Harmful, culturally prevalent imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood constrains women's self-determination. Gender in the Mirror proposes alternative imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood and advances an account of feminist discursive politics that takes on the challenge of neutralizing patriarchal imagery.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190208333
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Harmful, culturally prevalent imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood constrains women's self-determination. Gender in the Mirror proposes alternative imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood and advances an account of feminist discursive politics that takes on the challenge of neutralizing patriarchal imagery.
The Woman in the Mirror: Gender Swap
Author: Paula Spicer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781520109046
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Best friends Greg and Tina are having a loud argument at the coffee shop about who's got it worse in love: men or women?Greg can't stand the way women give him the run-around. He's a nice guy, unlike all these jerks who always get the girl.Tina hates the way guys will say just about anything to get into her pants. She's always got to have her guard up around men. A good man is hard to find.When Greg goes home, and Tina goes to work, something incredible happens: Greg is transformed into a woman and Tina is transformed into a man.Neither can figure out how and why this has happened, and they start out hating it! But Greg's going to start to understand Tina's side of the argument, and she's going to start to see where Greg's coming from.In the end, this gender swap will show them both that true love has been staring them in the face this entire time.Author's note: This is a standalone story with a happily ever after ending! Two bonus gender swap stories have been included as a thank you to my readers!Warning: This 15,000-word novella contains graphic language and steamy descriptions of gender transformation and sex.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781520109046
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Best friends Greg and Tina are having a loud argument at the coffee shop about who's got it worse in love: men or women?Greg can't stand the way women give him the run-around. He's a nice guy, unlike all these jerks who always get the girl.Tina hates the way guys will say just about anything to get into her pants. She's always got to have her guard up around men. A good man is hard to find.When Greg goes home, and Tina goes to work, something incredible happens: Greg is transformed into a woman and Tina is transformed into a man.Neither can figure out how and why this has happened, and they start out hating it! But Greg's going to start to understand Tina's side of the argument, and she's going to start to see where Greg's coming from.In the end, this gender swap will show them both that true love has been staring them in the face this entire time.Author's note: This is a standalone story with a happily ever after ending! Two bonus gender swap stories have been included as a thank you to my readers!Warning: This 15,000-word novella contains graphic language and steamy descriptions of gender transformation and sex.
Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century
Author: Morgan Powell
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
ISBN: 9781641893770
Category : Literature, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Argues that a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience of new media in the twelfth century.
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
ISBN: 9781641893770
Category : Literature, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Argues that a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience of new media in the twelfth century.
Becoming Transformed Girls: A 3-Book Gender Swap TG Romance Bundle
Author: Alyson Belle
Publisher: Alyson Belle Productions
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Just because you go to bed as a man doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed to wake up as one… From the first hints of their transformation to the complete assumption of their feminine alter egos, this fun and exciting collection of three steamy titles features guys transforming into gorgeous young women in a variety of surprising ways! With over 250 pages of exciting and familiar gender bending romance, you’re sure to be up reading this into the late, late hours of the night. In Pandemic Girl, Justin Watters is a man living in a post-apocalyptic society ravaged by a virus that slowly changes men into women. Being one of the few men left is a pretty sweet deal for Justin… until a jilted ex-lover exposes him to the virus and he’s sent to a containment camp where he adjusts to his changing body. Can he find a way to escape the camp before every memory of his old life and self is eliminated by the ultimate FEMPOL re-education training program? In Annie Morphs, Arnold stumbles onto a dying alien who grants five brave children the power to morph into any animal or person they can touch so that they can fight back against a secret invasion of evil, mind-controlling slugs called the "Yucks," and he even gets the same powers himself! But Arnold wants no part of a terrifying battle against alien invaders, so he takes his new powers and heads for Vegas in the body of a local girl, planning to use his transforming abilities to rob casinos. His plan works perfectly right up until the night when he stays morphed for a little too long and accidentally gets stuck in one of his gorgeous, borrowed bodies… In Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, Antwon Reynolds is a brilliant scientist working day and night to win fame and fortune by solving the ultimate mystery of mankind—how to understand the mysterious inner workings of women’s minds! He makes a potion and transforms himself into the beautiful Anita, where he’s now beset by a whirlwind of new emotions that threaten to overwhelm him! Will Anita be able to resist her passions long enough to finish her research, or will she give in to the newfound desire she experiences? More and more, all she wants is to seduce her biggest rival, wrap herself up at his side, and be with him forever… With this much steamy and thrilling transformation content, what are you waiting for? Get it today! Full-Length books in this 250+ page collection: - Pandemic Girl by Alyson Belle - Annie Morphs by Alyson Belle - Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde by Alyson Belle
Publisher: Alyson Belle Productions
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Just because you go to bed as a man doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed to wake up as one… From the first hints of their transformation to the complete assumption of their feminine alter egos, this fun and exciting collection of three steamy titles features guys transforming into gorgeous young women in a variety of surprising ways! With over 250 pages of exciting and familiar gender bending romance, you’re sure to be up reading this into the late, late hours of the night. In Pandemic Girl, Justin Watters is a man living in a post-apocalyptic society ravaged by a virus that slowly changes men into women. Being one of the few men left is a pretty sweet deal for Justin… until a jilted ex-lover exposes him to the virus and he’s sent to a containment camp where he adjusts to his changing body. Can he find a way to escape the camp before every memory of his old life and self is eliminated by the ultimate FEMPOL re-education training program? In Annie Morphs, Arnold stumbles onto a dying alien who grants five brave children the power to morph into any animal or person they can touch so that they can fight back against a secret invasion of evil, mind-controlling slugs called the "Yucks," and he even gets the same powers himself! But Arnold wants no part of a terrifying battle against alien invaders, so he takes his new powers and heads for Vegas in the body of a local girl, planning to use his transforming abilities to rob casinos. His plan works perfectly right up until the night when he stays morphed for a little too long and accidentally gets stuck in one of his gorgeous, borrowed bodies… In Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, Antwon Reynolds is a brilliant scientist working day and night to win fame and fortune by solving the ultimate mystery of mankind—how to understand the mysterious inner workings of women’s minds! He makes a potion and transforms himself into the beautiful Anita, where he’s now beset by a whirlwind of new emotions that threaten to overwhelm him! Will Anita be able to resist her passions long enough to finish her research, or will she give in to the newfound desire she experiences? More and more, all she wants is to seduce her biggest rival, wrap herself up at his side, and be with him forever… With this much steamy and thrilling transformation content, what are you waiting for? Get it today! Full-Length books in this 250+ page collection: - Pandemic Girl by Alyson Belle - Annie Morphs by Alyson Belle - Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde by Alyson Belle
Full Moon Gender Swap
Author: Paula Spicer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781520164991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Curt's having the worst luck: his date just stood him up, he just sat in someone's cheesy nachos at the movie theatre, and a crazy naked woman BIT him in the alley outside. It's true what they say, weird things do happen at the full moon.Little does Curt know that the woman who bit him in the alley has infected him. His full moon nights are about to get a lot weirder, because from now on, he'll become a sex-hungry woman when the moon is fully exposed.His female self's appetites are insatiable when the full moon is in the sky. He can only refer to himself as a werewoman. He enlists Kathy, his oldest friend and the only person who will believe him, to help him deal with the werewoman. Together, they manage to find a bright spot in all the madness.Author's note: This is a standalone romance story with a HAE ending! Two bonus gender swap romance stories have been included as a thank you to my readers!Warning: This 15,000-word novella contains graphic language and steamy descriptions of gender transformation and sex.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781520164991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Curt's having the worst luck: his date just stood him up, he just sat in someone's cheesy nachos at the movie theatre, and a crazy naked woman BIT him in the alley outside. It's true what they say, weird things do happen at the full moon.Little does Curt know that the woman who bit him in the alley has infected him. His full moon nights are about to get a lot weirder, because from now on, he'll become a sex-hungry woman when the moon is fully exposed.His female self's appetites are insatiable when the full moon is in the sky. He can only refer to himself as a werewoman. He enlists Kathy, his oldest friend and the only person who will believe him, to help him deal with the werewoman. Together, they manage to find a bright spot in all the madness.Author's note: This is a standalone romance story with a HAE ending! Two bonus gender swap romance stories have been included as a thank you to my readers!Warning: This 15,000-word novella contains graphic language and steamy descriptions of gender transformation and sex.
Facing the Mirror
Author: Frida Furman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136785760
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The women at Julie's International Salon share their experiences of bodily self-presentation, femininity, aging, and caring. Their own words are at the center of the book; the stories of their lives, fresh and compelling, are told here with affection. But beyond the stories themselves, Frida Kerner Furman explores the socio-moral significance of these beauty shop experiences, showing how they reveal as much about society at large as about older women. For in telling us how they perceive reality, make choices, and live in their worlds, the women of Julie's expose structures of power, inequality, and resistance in the larger world that all of us, young or old, beautiful or not, face every day.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136785760
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The women at Julie's International Salon share their experiences of bodily self-presentation, femininity, aging, and caring. Their own words are at the center of the book; the stories of their lives, fresh and compelling, are told here with affection. But beyond the stories themselves, Frida Kerner Furman explores the socio-moral significance of these beauty shop experiences, showing how they reveal as much about society at large as about older women. For in telling us how they perceive reality, make choices, and live in their worlds, the women of Julie's expose structures of power, inequality, and resistance in the larger world that all of us, young or old, beautiful or not, face every day.
Fairest
Author: Meredith Talusan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525561315
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction "Talusan sails past the conventions of trans and immigrant memoirs." --The New York Times Book Review "A ball of light hurled into the dark undertow of migration and survival." --Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous A singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story travels from an immigrant childhood to Harvard to a gender transition and illuminates the illusions of race, disability, and gender Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a "sun child" from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America. Coping with the strain of parental neglect and the elusive promise of U.S. citizenship, Talusan found childhood comfort from her devoted grandmother, a grounding force as she was treated by others with special preference or public curiosity. As an immigrant to the United States, Talusan came to be perceived as white. An academic scholarship to Harvard provided access to elite circles of privilege but required Talusan to navigate through the complex spheres of race, class, sexuality, and her place within the gay community. She emerged as an artist and an activist questioning the boundaries of gender. Talusan realized she did not want to be confined to a prescribed role as a man, and transitioned to become a woman, despite the risk of losing a man she deeply loved. Throughout her journey, Talusan shares poignant and powerful episodes of desirability and love that will remind readers of works such as Call Me By Your Name and Giovanni's Room. Her evocative reflections will shift our own perceptions of love, identity, gender, and the fairness of life.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525561315
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction "Talusan sails past the conventions of trans and immigrant memoirs." --The New York Times Book Review "A ball of light hurled into the dark undertow of migration and survival." --Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous A singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story travels from an immigrant childhood to Harvard to a gender transition and illuminates the illusions of race, disability, and gender Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a "sun child" from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America. Coping with the strain of parental neglect and the elusive promise of U.S. citizenship, Talusan found childhood comfort from her devoted grandmother, a grounding force as she was treated by others with special preference or public curiosity. As an immigrant to the United States, Talusan came to be perceived as white. An academic scholarship to Harvard provided access to elite circles of privilege but required Talusan to navigate through the complex spheres of race, class, sexuality, and her place within the gay community. She emerged as an artist and an activist questioning the boundaries of gender. Talusan realized she did not want to be confined to a prescribed role as a man, and transitioned to become a woman, despite the risk of losing a man she deeply loved. Throughout her journey, Talusan shares poignant and powerful episodes of desirability and love that will remind readers of works such as Call Me By Your Name and Giovanni's Room. Her evocative reflections will shift our own perceptions of love, identity, gender, and the fairness of life.
The Mirror Season
Author: Anna-Marie McLemore
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1250624134
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
"An unforgettable story of trauma and healing, told in achingly beautiful prose with great tenderness and care." —#1 New York Times-bestselling author Karen M. McManus When two teens discover that they were both sexually assaulted at the same party, they develop a cautious friendship through her family’s possibly-magical pastelería, his secret forest of otherworldly trees, and the swallows returning to their hometown, in Anna-Marie McLemore's The Mirror Season. Graciela Cristales’ whole world changes after she and a boy she barely knows are assaulted at the same party. She loses her gift for making enchanted pan dulce. Neighborhood trees vanish overnight, while mirrored glass appears, bringing reckless magic with it. And Ciela is haunted by what happened to her, and what happened to the boy whose name she never learned. But when the boy, Lock, shows up at Ciela’s school, he has no memory of that night, and no clue that a single piece of mirrored glass is taking his life apart. Ciela decides to help him, which means hiding the truth about that night. Because Ciela knows who assaulted her, and him. And she knows that her survival, and his, depend on no one finding out what really happened.
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1250624134
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
"An unforgettable story of trauma and healing, told in achingly beautiful prose with great tenderness and care." —#1 New York Times-bestselling author Karen M. McManus When two teens discover that they were both sexually assaulted at the same party, they develop a cautious friendship through her family’s possibly-magical pastelería, his secret forest of otherworldly trees, and the swallows returning to their hometown, in Anna-Marie McLemore's The Mirror Season. Graciela Cristales’ whole world changes after she and a boy she barely knows are assaulted at the same party. She loses her gift for making enchanted pan dulce. Neighborhood trees vanish overnight, while mirrored glass appears, bringing reckless magic with it. And Ciela is haunted by what happened to her, and what happened to the boy whose name she never learned. But when the boy, Lock, shows up at Ciela’s school, he has no memory of that night, and no clue that a single piece of mirrored glass is taking his life apart. Ciela decides to help him, which means hiding the truth about that night. Because Ciela knows who assaulted her, and him. And she knows that her survival, and his, depend on no one finding out what really happened.
In Every Mirror She's Black
Author: Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728240395
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
A Good Morning America Buzz Pick! As seen in Vulture, Essence, Good Morning America, The Independent, Goodreads, PureWow, and many more! "A sexy, surprising, searing debut about love, loss, desire, and the many dimensions of Black womanhood."—Deesha Philyaw, 2020 National Book Award Finalist & award-winning author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies An arresting debut for anyone looking for insight into what it means to be a Black woman in the world. Three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the most open society run by the most private people. Successful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi is lured from the U.S. to Sweden by Jonny von Lundin, CEO of the nation's largest marketing firm, to help fix a PR fiasco involving a racially tone-deaf campaign. A killer at work but a failure in love, Kemi's move is a last-ditch effort to reclaim her social life. A chance meeting with Jonny in business class en route to the U.S. propels former model-turned-flight-attendant Brittany-Rae Johnson into a life of wealth, luxury, and privilege—a life she's not sure she wants—as the object of his unhealthy obsession. And refugee Muna Saheed, who lost her entire family, finds a job cleaning the toilets at Jonny's office as she works to establish her residency in Sweden and, more importantly, seeks connection and a place she can call home. Told through the perspectives of each of the three women, In Every Mirror She's Black is a fast-paced, richly nuanced yet accessible contemporary novel that touches on important social issues of racism, classism, fetishization, and tokenism, and what it means to be a Black woman navigating a white-dominated society. Praise for In Every Mirror She's Black: "In Every Mirror She's Black is a wise and complicated exploration of the lives of three Black women in America and Sweden. Lola Akinmade Åkerström offers a sharply written story with messy, deeply moving characters, raising brutal questions and steering clear of easy answers. A book that will stick with you long after you've turned the last page." —Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six and Malibu Rising "In Every Mirror She's Black highlights the struggles of three women fighting to assimilate into a society that ignores their worth. These characters will pull at your heartstrings. Lola writes with a contemporary flair, highlighting the layered subtleties of the Black woman's plight. In Every Mirror She's Black will stay with readers for a long time." —Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of bestselling novels Here Comes the Sun and Patsy "In her debut novel, Lola Akinmade Akerstrom has given us a story that is at once enjoyable and disturbing as it explores the painful price millions of women around the world pay for walking around with black skin." —Imbolo Mbue, New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728240395
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
A Good Morning America Buzz Pick! As seen in Vulture, Essence, Good Morning America, The Independent, Goodreads, PureWow, and many more! "A sexy, surprising, searing debut about love, loss, desire, and the many dimensions of Black womanhood."—Deesha Philyaw, 2020 National Book Award Finalist & award-winning author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies An arresting debut for anyone looking for insight into what it means to be a Black woman in the world. Three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the most open society run by the most private people. Successful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi is lured from the U.S. to Sweden by Jonny von Lundin, CEO of the nation's largest marketing firm, to help fix a PR fiasco involving a racially tone-deaf campaign. A killer at work but a failure in love, Kemi's move is a last-ditch effort to reclaim her social life. A chance meeting with Jonny in business class en route to the U.S. propels former model-turned-flight-attendant Brittany-Rae Johnson into a life of wealth, luxury, and privilege—a life she's not sure she wants—as the object of his unhealthy obsession. And refugee Muna Saheed, who lost her entire family, finds a job cleaning the toilets at Jonny's office as she works to establish her residency in Sweden and, more importantly, seeks connection and a place she can call home. Told through the perspectives of each of the three women, In Every Mirror She's Black is a fast-paced, richly nuanced yet accessible contemporary novel that touches on important social issues of racism, classism, fetishization, and tokenism, and what it means to be a Black woman navigating a white-dominated society. Praise for In Every Mirror She's Black: "In Every Mirror She's Black is a wise and complicated exploration of the lives of three Black women in America and Sweden. Lola Akinmade Åkerström offers a sharply written story with messy, deeply moving characters, raising brutal questions and steering clear of easy answers. A book that will stick with you long after you've turned the last page." —Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six and Malibu Rising "In Every Mirror She's Black highlights the struggles of three women fighting to assimilate into a society that ignores their worth. These characters will pull at your heartstrings. Lola writes with a contemporary flair, highlighting the layered subtleties of the Black woman's plight. In Every Mirror She's Black will stay with readers for a long time." —Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of bestselling novels Here Comes the Sun and Patsy "In her debut novel, Lola Akinmade Akerstrom has given us a story that is at once enjoyable and disturbing as it explores the painful price millions of women around the world pay for walking around with black skin." —Imbolo Mbue, New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers
Trick Mirror
Author: Jia Tolentino
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0525510559
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.”—Vulture FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HARVARD CRIMSON AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Chicago Tribune • The Washington Post • NPR • Variety • Esquire • Vox • Elle • Glamour • GQ • Good Housekeeping • The Paris Review • Paste • Town & Country • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • BookRiot • Shelf Awareness Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. 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 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. FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0525510559
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.”—Vulture FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HARVARD CRIMSON AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Chicago Tribune • The Washington Post • NPR • Variety • Esquire • Vox • Elle • Glamour • GQ • Good Housekeeping • The Paris Review • Paste • Town & Country • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • BookRiot • Shelf Awareness Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. 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 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. FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY