Fake Accounts, Oyler Lauren

On the eve of Donald Trumps inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriends phone and makes a startling discovery: hes an anonymous Internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in Internet fakery, irony, and outrage, shes not exactly shocked by the revelation. But this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies.

Half-relieved that she now has a reason to escape the already-floundering relationship, she plots to break up with him while on a trip to the Womens March in DC. Until she gets a phone call from her boyfriends mother--hes been killed in a biking accident.

Shaken, and suddenly left with no reason to stay in New York--or be anywhere in particular--our unnamed narrator flees to Berlin, embarking on her own cycles of manipulation through a collection of fake personas that she creates and employs in dating apps and at expat meetups, in open-plan offices and bureaucratic waiting rooms.