'This novel made me want to retire from contemporary reality. I loved it' Zadie Smith 'Fake Accounts is an absorbing and shameless examination of the way self-mythologies are forged and performed in the public privacy of the internet. Fans of Lauren Oyler's ferocious criticism will love this 21st century comedy of bad manners' Catherine Lacey, author of Nobody is Ever Missing and The Answers 'Only if a novelist is traditional in the right ways--in her moral intelligence, in her complex eloquence, in her patient plotting--can she properly register the real newness of our hurtling world of social media and a mediatized society. Lauren Oyler has written a very funny and serious contemporary novel. You must pick it up if you read fiction and/or tweets' Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision and Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis 'Lauren Oyler holds a funhouse mirror up to our cracked reality, daring the reader to follow her into the depths of online fakery, app-based sociality, and late-capitalist dissonance, the mazelike illogic of our information-glutted times. In her masterful hands, you may feel your own carefully constructed twenty-first-century persona begin to unravel, revealing something much less tidy and much more provocative dwelling beneath' Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine 'Somehow Lauren Oyler hacked my brain preferences and wrote the novel I've been waiting years to read. To spend time in the pages of this stealthily radical book is to submit to Oyler's dopamine experiment of 'social media realism'--a genre I believe she has pioneered--and to cycle endlessly from obsession to logic to paranoia to grandiosity to salvation to idolatry to distrust. This novel is, above all, a gripping blast to read, and so, so effortlessly smart' Heidi Julavits, author of The Folded Clock and The Vanishers.