- Published: 3 November 2020
- ISBN: 9780143135197
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $38.00
Self Care
A Novel











- Published: 3 November 2020
- ISBN: 9780143135197
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $38.00
"Leigh Stein's latest novel is as decadent and brutal as a vampire facial. It's an exposé 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
"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
"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