![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Danielle Evans On Telling the Truth About History.George Saunders Offers a Master Class in Fiction.Told in our nameless narrator’s seductive, incisive, and often deceptive voice, Fake Accounts is a ferociously smart skewering of the social media age, where we’re long on carefully-crafted fictions and short on truth. A shocking turn of events propels her toward a new life in Berlin, where the dizzying weight of her own falsehoods soon warps her reality. ![]() She plots to end the relationship, then heads to the Women’s March in Washington D.C., where she’s sucked into the maddening vortex of an Instagram-friendly political awakening. It’s these cheeky, crystalline insights about “a generation that grew up watching reality TV, without respect for fundamental principles of functional society and the human soul” that make Fake Accounts such an unforgettable chronicle of one woman’s dark journey through the worst her generation has to offer, from online outrage to hashtag activism.įake Accounts opens on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, when a young Brooklynite snooping on her boyfriend’s phone discovers his secret life as an online conspiracy theorist with a cult following. “Reluctantly I will admit to being a member of my generation,” confides the glib millennial hustler at the heart of Fake Acccounts, Lauren Oyler’s debut novel. ![]()
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