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The eminent critic of modern-day capitalism Naomi Klein finds herself falling down a rabbit hole as she grows fascinated by a woman she is frequently confused with, the feminist author turned MAGA-style conspiracy theorist, Naomi Wolf.
In so doing, she stumbles on remarkable insights about a mirror world that too many of us inhabit – an online fantasy house of alternative facts and explanations we use to make sense of an increasingly confusing and troubled digital age. Identity itself, and with it our grip on reality, may be fracturing in ways we do not even suspect.
An all-too-rare book of ideas that is also an elegantly written page-turner.
2 authors picked Doppelganger as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all?
When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn't. She started to find herself grappling with a distorted sense of reality, becoming obsessed with reading the threats on social media, the endlessly scrolling insults from the followers of her doppelganger. Why had her shadowy other gone down such an extreme path?…