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Trick Mirror
- Reflections on Self-Delusion
- Narrated by: Jia Tolentino
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Essays
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Publisher's Summary
New York Times Best Seller
"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 10 Best Books of the Year by the New York Public Library and one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review • Time • The Washington Post • NPR • Variety • Esquire • Vox • Elle • Glamour • Good Housekeeping • The Paris Review • Paste • Town & Country • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • BookRiot
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 listener 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
"Jia Tolentino is the best young essayist at work in the United States, one I’ve consistently admired and learned from, and I was exhilarated to get a whole lot of her at once in Trick Mirror. In these nine essays, she rethinks troubling ingredients of modern life, from the internet to mind-altering drugs to wedding culture. All through the book, single sentences flash like lightning to show something familiar in a startling way, but she also builds extended arguments with her usual, unusual blend of lyricism and skepticism. In the end, we have a picture of America that was as missing as it was needed." (Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me)
Critic Reviews
"Jia Tolentino narrates her own collection of essays with precision, clarity, and urgency.... Listeners receive an intense onslaught of sophisticated diction and syntax, but, thankfully, Tolentino uses vocal intonation to make her words accessible in the audiobook format.... Listeners will feel that Tolentino is talking directly to them, making her arguments even more compelling." (AudioFile magazine)
“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.” (Zadie Smith)
“The millennial Susan Sontag, a brilliant voice in cultural criticism.... She remains engaged with her subjects even as she scratches her head and wonders why we do what we do. Even better: She writes like a dream.” (The Washington Post)
“In Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino’s thinking surges with a fierce, electric lyricism. Her mind is animated by rigor and compassion at once. She’s horrified by the world and also in love with it. Her truths are knotty but her voice is crystalline enough to handle them. She’s always got skin in the game; she knows we all do. Her intelligence is unrelenting and full-blooded, a heart beating inside every critique. She refuses easy morals, false binaries, and redemptive epiphanies, but all that refusal is in the service of something tender, humane, and often achingly beautiful - an exploration of what we long for, how we long for it, and all the stories we tell ourselves along the way.” (Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering)

Editor's Pick
Make sense of the chaos
"I’ve never really been okay with my addiction to the internet. It’s something I’m constantly at odds with, but like a '90s cartoon character stuck in a pit of quicksand, only seem to sink further into the harder I try to escape. Jia Tolentino’s essays on self-delusion struck me immediately as a possible salve to my digitally swollen daily existence. I knew nothing about Tolentino or her prolific career at Hairpin, Jezebel, and The New Yorker beforehand, and I didn’t need to. I’ve never heard someone with such a keen understanding of digital culture in all of its wondrous, disheartening perversity. She pinpoints the exact issues at the heart of every multifaceted topic she approaches, and deftly lends compassion and a neutral journalistic perspective to even the most outrageous memories. She’s a damn good nonfiction narrator too. I just wish she were always around to make sense of the chaos."
—Michael D., Audible Editor
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- Alice
- 08-25-19
Couldn’t stop listening
I sense that IRL Ms. Tolentino & I would disagree about many cultural and political issues...but I deeply valued and respected her opinions and sharp intellect. This was a fascinating book that I listened to in two days following which I purchased a hard copy. I love a read that helps me appreciate alternative perspectives without feeling toxic or critical or making me want to punch the person in the uvula. She is a wizard at accomplishing this.
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- Jeffery Delmas
- 01-05-20
Reflections of the Obvious
Social media can be toxic? Surprise surprise.
Big corporations are self interested? Another big surprise.
This book was recommended to me as insightful. But I found it little more than a toddler discovering her navel. I liked the part about UVA. I wish I had 7 of my 9 hours back.
12 people found this helpful
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- William
- 09-19-19
engaging
Comfortable enough that I think "I could write like that."
Erudite enough that I know I can never write like that.
I enjoyed it enough to purchase a written copy as well.
8 people found this helpful
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- Danielle D
- 07-10-20
Seems slightly inauthentic
I generally like Jia Tolentino’s writing, but she’s much better at making judgments of others and their behavior than turning the lens on herself. She attempts to tell humbling stories about herself, but they feel protected and like she’s only giving the version she wants you to know. She raised many good and valid points about internet culture, but seemed to be more easy on herself than the others she criticizes.
7 people found this helpful
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- Elizabeth Knox
- 10-02-20
Fascinating
Fascinating essays on our current culture and Zeitgeist. Some of the chapters felt very theoretical and textbook-y but overall I really liked her writing style and voice. She intersperses good bits of humor into some heavy topics. I read this with a book group. The younger people in my group really liked the book; the older readers did not like, even despised, it... a sociological study of its own.
6 people found this helpful
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- ILoveAmazon
- 02-20-20
I want Jia to talk to me about everything
Loved every line of this and wished it didn't end as soon as it did
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- W Perry Hall
- 10-21-20
Fresh Cerebral Provocations
An essay collection that's Fresh, Brilliant, Cerebrally Stimulating and Boundary-Expanding (for this Gen-X male, to be sure).
The New Yorker must be proud to have Jia Tolento as its millennial cultural critic.
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- Em
- 05-08-20
Timely and excellently written
The essays fit together to provide insights into the political moment. It's a deeper dive into subjects I thought I understood, and I learned so much.
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- ziggystardust
- 05-10-20
A masterpiece of thought
Just read it - and your mind will be expanded by the time you’re done. How many books/essays/ authors can you honestly say the same about? On top of her already perfect writing, Jia’s narration is seamless (and I’m very picky with narrators). Now, go listen to it and enjoy having your mind transformed.
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- GIF
- 02-25-20
pretty good
i felt that the writing style wasnt engaging... at least it wasnt engaging enough for me... or maybe performance by the author wasnt too good... idk, but something wasnt holding my attention... after 2nd essay i was about to return the book but then somehow the following topics got my interest, author's perspective and very contemporary point of view as well as good synthesis of various aspects of current life concerning her chosen topics got me listening... so, overall, i ended up enjoying this book and even had some friends listening with me to some essay so we could discuss... and the last essay really resonated with me... thus, overall, i think it was a good, interesting, thought-provoking and valid reading on very current topics ..
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