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Book World: Two authors expose the deceptive, self-aggrandizing absurdity of online life Ron Charles, The Washington Post Feb. 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail - - - In Lauren Oyler s Fake Accounts, an inveterate liar reveals the humiliating truth about our social media age. The deceptive posing, the withering irony, the infinitely cloned political outrage - it s all splayed out here in this witty novel that captures a certain species of Internet life better than any other book I ve read. A century ago New York City got Edith Wharton; now the World Wide Web gets Lauren Oyler. We re even. The unnamed narrator of Fake Accounts is full of intellectual superiority and self-loathing, teetering on the border between likable and loathsome. As a White woman in Brooklyn, she refuses to identify as a White woman in Brooklyn because, she says, the description usually signified someone selfish, lazy, and in possession of superficial understandings of complex topic ....