Loved All Consuming for its righteous takedown of performative wellness? explodes the entire self-optimization machine in Trick Mirror.
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- Essays slice through Instagram's curated lies
- Feminist fury meets laugh-out-loud self-awareness
- Internet culture dissected w/ zero preachiness
- Personal confessions validate your messy humanity
If Tandoh's takedown of wellness grifters felt like vindication, Jia Tolentino's essays dismantle the entire self-optimization industrial complex with the same righteous fury. She exposes how Instagram highlight reels, boutique fitness cults, and performative wokeness alienate us from honest living—tracing the economic pressures and self-delusions that keep us trapped in cycles we claim to resist, all with the vulnerable humor of a friend texting screenshots at 2 a.m.
Tolentino wields the same inclusive, intersectional lens you craved in All Consuming, refusing easy answers about identity, capitalism, or our complicity in the systems we critique. Her millennial claustrophobia with internet culture reads like Tandoh's queer, marginalized perspective skewering whitewashed narratives.
This is permission to be messy, contradictory, and human without the self-flagellation.
What Readers Are Saying
"outstanding...each essay was a master class on how to write cultural criticism...well worth a read." — Roxane, Goodreads
"I can see why this collection has been received with such acclaim... her last three essays really struck a chord in me!" — Lisa (NY), Goodreads
"It's smart and insightful and funny...strikes the balance between cultural criticism and personal account very well." — Lucy Dacus, Goodreads
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