# Fake Accounts - Hardcover

by **Lauren Oyler** (Author)

**********A NATIONAL BESTSELLER \* A _NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW_ EDITORS' CHOICE \* A _WASHINGTON POST_ BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR**********

"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.

### Author Biography

**LAUREN OYLER**'s essays on books and culture appear regularly in _The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, London Review of Books, Harper's Magazine, Bookforum_, and other publications. Born and raised in West Virginia, she now divides her time between New York and Berlin.

**Number of Pages:** 272

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN

**Publication Date:** February 02, 2021

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