{"product_id":"we-had-to-remove-this-post-isbn-9780358622369","title":"We Had To Remove This Post","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT IS “NORMAL”?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT IS “RIGHT”?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAND WHO GETS TO DECIDE?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst—but Kayleigh needs money. So she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn’t allowed to mention. Her task: review offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and decide which need to be removed. It’s grueling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform’s ever-changing moderating guidelines. Yet Kayleigh is good at her job, and she finds in her colleagues a group of friends—even a new girlfriend—and for the first time in her life, her future seems bright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways. How long before the moderators’ own senses of right and wrong begin to bend and flex?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one of the most acclaimed Dutch writers of her generation, We Had to Remove This Post is a chilling, powerful, and urgent literary masterpiece about who or what determines our worldview, who sets the boundaries, and just how much a person can be asked to accept.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Scathing, darkly humorous exploration of the impact of VR, IRL… Bervoets just gets it. This is, unironically, a novel for our time.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rarely does this novel read like correspondence. The prose is too fine, the settings too detailed, the pacing exquisite.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hanna Bervoets is the literary voice of a new generation. This book victoriously redefines our challenges in a digital world.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoxane Van Iperen, author of the New York Times bestseller The Sisters of Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWe Had to Remove This Post\u003c\/em\u003e is a discomfiting mystery about the disturbing parts of social media that most people never see.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This novel gives us an acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today, a job that extracts an immeasurable psychic toll. Fascinating and disturbing.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLing Ma, author of Severance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The dank underside of social media, its cruelty and delusions, have become, our shared affliction. It needed an accomplished novelist to explore humanely the damage. Hanna Bervoets has richly obliged in this superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle novel of mental unravelling. At its wonderful, hallucinatory climax, Kayleigh, the shattered protagonist, asks on our behalf the one true question, and the spellbound reader will usefully struggle for an answer.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIan McEwan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWe Had To Remove This Post\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most fascinating books I've read in years. Hanna Bervoets has created an astonishing and compelling cast of characters, drawn together through circumstance, separated by the same. The novel is fast-paced and thrilling, violent and nightmarish and grief-stricken, but also tender and wildly moving. A brilliant peek behind the curtains at what happens when we put our trust in social media. Believe me when I say you've never read anything like it.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKristen Arnett, New York Times-bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Powerful, discussable, and a harbinger of a voice-in-translation to watch.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889948487909,"sku":"NP9780358622369","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780358622369.jpg?v=1730232244","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/we-had-to-remove-this-post-isbn-9780358622369","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}