All of our problems are relatively minor, Tolentino admits, but to us, theyвЂ™re huge thereвЂ™s nothing wrong with that. ItвЂ™s this fact that makes Trick MirrorВ truly relatable: Tolentino focuses on things such as whether she should get married even though she doesnвЂ™t want to, how the internet is warping her friendships and whether she still believes in God after being raised a Christian (she doesnвЂ™t).

TolentinoвЂ™s writing is almost painfully self-aware (she goes to almost comical lengths to apologise to her readers for not providing concrete answers to the many apt questions she asks) and grapples with the daily minor existential questions that life without massive hardship poses to a college-educated New Yorker. And in Trick Mirror: Reflections On Self-Delusion, her first collection of essays, she sticks to what she knows best.

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