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Fake Accounts
how to do nothing
internet
jenny odell
Jia Tolentino
Lauren Oyler
no one is talking about this
parenthood
Patricia Lockwood
pregnancy
social media
the rules do not apply
Trick Mirror
uncanny valley
Product details
- ISBN 9780349145525
- Weight: 220g
- Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2026
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Acutely empathetic, thoroughly researched, funny, irreverent and moving' Observer
'What a book!' Marianne Levy, author of Don't Forget to Scream
'I loved it' Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence
In Second Life, Hess tells her deeply personal story of a pregnancy that falls outside the fêted category of 'normal'. But this is also a story about all of us. For as she made her way through a bizarre digital world of pregnancy apps, prenatal genetic tests, gender reveal videos, rare disease Facebook groups, 'freebirth' influencers and hospital reality shows, Hess realised that ideas of eugenics, surveillance, ableism and hyper-individualism are being sold through shiny technologies to a new generation of parents.
Amanda Hess is a critic at large for the New York Times. Her writing has received multiple awards, including a National Magazine Award for Public Interest (for her Pacific Standard article about online harrassment of women), a Sidney Award for an outstanding piece of socially-conscious journalism, a Mirror Award for best traditional article on the media industry, and a Newswomen's Club Front Page Award for criticism.
