Trust and Safety

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"Trust and Safety is a read-in-one-sitting exploration of contemporary life, technology and social media, queerness, belonging and conformity . . . Touching, satirical, humorous and effortlessly, fantastically queer." --Book Trip

"The main tenet of the book is that Instagram fantasies will almost never match up to their real-life counterparts... Continuing from The Very Nice Box, [Laura and Eve's] social satire skills are sharp as ever" --Our Culture

"Clever . . . Blackett and Gleichman expertly build suspense following a bombshell revelation . . . This intrigues and unsettles in equal measure." --Publishers Weekly

"Blackett and Gleichman skillfully capture the way a single look from the right person can make you embarrassed about every choice you've ever made. A fast, fun read that invites you to change your life (or at least quit Instagram)." --Kirkus

"...Blackett and Gleichman pair a chipper-seeming story with deep satire and a growing sense of dread. Most of the characters are pretty hard to like, but in a fun way, which adds to the authors' commentary on money, tech, and all the tyranny and hypocrisy therein." --Booklist

"Sexy, surprising, witty and beautifully written--Trust and Safety is a complete delight from start to finish." --Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author of The Spare Room and We Were Never Here

"Blackett and Gleichman have written a laugh-out-loud novel as delightfully heterogeneous in genre as the queer community is in gender presentation. What starts out as a wry Noël Coward plot for the digital age swiftly escalates to heights of such passion, longing, and remorse that I felt like I was reading the version of Pride and Prejudice we all want--namely, where Darcy is a woodsy, stick shift-driving butch. If you want a book that perfectly evokes millennial sexual politics under late-stage capitalism, and in which all of us--gay, straight, cis, and trans alike--are read for absolute filth, then look no further than Trust and Safety." --Rafael Frumkin, author of Confidence and Bugsy

"What happens when we try to live the life that Instagram is selling us? This is the question that Trust and Safety hilariously--and poignantly--asks. In answering it, Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman spare no one, taking aim at everyone from tech bros to overbearing mothers. It's a smart, funny, and timely exploration of what happens when our obsessions get the better of us, and when we discover that authenticity is not as authentic as it seems."--Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding

"Trust and Safety is distressingly smart, wickedly sly, and side-clutchingly hilarious--I was howling! I simply could not turn away. Blackett and Gleichman achieve the best kind of storytelling: the type that forces you to contend with their characters' choices, then holds up a mirror so you're implicated in their foibles and bad decision-making--all while demanding that you turn the page because you simply must know how it ends. What a brilliantly observed and witty take on the sometimes absurd ways we choose to live. And how blessedly and wonderfully gay." --Vanessa Chan, author of The Storm We Made

"Irresistibly hilarious and weird, sexy and surprising, and gently profound, Trust & Safety delighted me at every turn and delivered razor-sharp insights into our contemporary search for authenticity, beauty, and the perfect vintage doorknob."--Jenny Fran Davis, author of Dykette

"Sharp, hilarious, and thought-provoking, Trust & Safety is about the aspirations, absurdities, and longings of contemporary life--a story that will make you question your own life choices when you're not lingering over each pitch-perfect line or racing to find out what happens next." --Jane Pek, author of The Verifiers