Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Singapore Literature Prize for English Fiction (2018) and fascinating

and fascinating

ever-expanding to-do lists and endless

White lies

and the life you've always wanted

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Singapore Literature Prize for English Fiction (2018) and fascinatingTrick 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