Self Care

Self Care
Leigh Stein
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Paperback
h196 x 128mm - 224pg
30 Jun 2020 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780143135197
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Maren Gelb is on a company-imposed digital detox. She tweeted something terrible about the President' s daughter, and as the COO of Richual, "the most inclusive online community platform for women to cultivate the practice of self-care and change the world by changing ourselves," it' s a PR nightmare. Not only is CEO Devin Avery counting on Maren to be fully present for their next round of funding, but indispensable employee Khadijah Walker has been keeping a secret that will reveal just how feminist Richual' s values actually are, and former Bachelorette contestant and Richual board member Evan Wiley is about to be embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal that could destroy the company forever. Have you ever scrolled through Instagram and seen countless influencers who seem like experts at caring for themselves-from their yoga crop tops to their well-lit clean meals to their serumed skin and erudite-but-color-coded reading stack? Self Care delves into the lives and psyches of people working in the wellness industry and exposes the world behind the filter.
"Leigh Stein' s latest novel is as decadent and brutal as a vampire facial. It' s an expose of feel-good feminism, an indictment of contemporary capitalism, and an absolute treat to read. This book will make you laugh, gasp, and vow to get off social media for good - and it' ll understand when you can' t help but log right back on. " --Julia Phillips, National Book Award finalist for Disappearing Earth"Stein' s sharp writing separates her from the pack in this exquisite, Machiavellian morality tale about the ethics of looking out for oneself. " --Publishers Weekly *starred review*"Self Care is a skewering mockumentary about influencer culture, internet feminism, and the infinite ways that big tech capitalizes on our worst fears and insecurities. Utterly teeming with humor, this is exactly the sort of book that Dorothy Parker would have written if she' d been reincarnated as an Instagram celebrity. " --Catherine Lacey, author of The Answers and Certain American States: Stories "A hyper-timely--and unexpectedly heartfelt--satire of #girlboss culture and the wellness industrial complex. . . Compulsively readable. . . Brilliant. " --Kirkus Reviews "Wickedly talented Leigh Stein - for my money, one of our sharpest millennial writers - knows the internet, and she' s used that intimate knowledge to write a pitch-perfect novel for our times. Self Care is a hilarious and sneakily moving send-up of what it means to try and live when every move you make is observed and dissected online, by a writer who sees the truth and says it with so much humor and heart you' ll laugh (and maybe cry) out loud. " --Julie Buntin, author of Marlena "A titillating satire about our quest for validation and the lengths that some will go to for #selfactualization, Self Care is an intelligent, delightful read that will make your mind (and epidermis!) glow. " --Courtney Maum, author of Touch and Costalegre
Leigh Stein is the author of the acclaimed 2012 novel The Fallback Plan, a poetry collection the same year (both Melville House), and the 2016 memoir Land of Enchantment (Plume). From 2014-2017, before she was 30, she ran a secret Facebook group of 40,000 women writers, in her role as cofounder and executive director of Out of the Binders/BinderCon, a feminist nonprofit organisation.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780143135197
Published: 30 Jun 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Plume
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 196mm
Width: 128mm
Pages: 224

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