Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Condition:Well Read imaginative—and he can’t stop thinking

imaginative—and he can’t stop thinking about her

and months

and swiftly becomes the richest man in the New World

our lives are ruled by crazy cycles of euphoria and hysteria that manage to grip the world but are all-too-soon forgotten

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Condition:Well Read imaginative—and he can’t stop thinkingTrick 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 in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes about the cultural prisms that have shaped her: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the American scammer as millennial hero; the literary