Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler

I first heard about this novel online, but it wasn’t until I heard Lauren’s interview on the New York Times Book Review podcast that I learned that Lauren is from West Virginia! As a fellow millennial Appalachian, I knew I needed to read it.

Info on the book from Lauren Oyler’s website:

Lauren Oyler is a writer based in New York and Berlin. She was born and raised in West Virginia. Her essays on books and culture have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, Harper’s, the Guardian, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Bookforum, the Baffler, the New Republic, and elsewhere.

Fake Accounts is a novel about a woman who discovers her boyfriend is an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist. It takes place in New York and Berlin, with a brief detour to Washington, D.C. It has a plot, approachable formal experimentation, and a dense yet playful style. It was an Indie Next Pick for February, and the New Yorkmagazine Approval Matrix deemed it “highbrow / brilliant.” It is a national bestseller and a New York Times Editors’ Choice.