Lauren Oyler’s Narrator Is Unreliable, but So Are All of Us Online

Lauren Oyler’s debut novel brings the reader down a rabbit hole of endless, mindless scrolling, online identities, and conspiracy theories. Fake Accounts follows the journey of a young woman after she discovers that her boyfriend is running an Instagram account spouting dangerous conspiracies that may or may not have contributed to the election of a […] The post Lauren Oyler’s Narrator Is Unreliable, but So Are All of Us Online appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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