Hardcover | 144 pages For readers of Leila Slimanis The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma’s Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitorsreviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporationwho convince themselves theyre in control . . . until the violence strikes closer to home.

Kayleigh needs money. Thats why she takes a job as a content moderator for a social media platform whose name she isnt allowed to mention. Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed. Its grueling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platforms ever-changing terms of service while a supervisor sits behind them, timing and scoring their assessments. Yet Kayleigh finds a group of friends, even a new loveand, somehow, the job starts to feel okay.

But when her colleagues begin to break down; when Sigrid, her new girlfriend, grows increasingly distant and fragile; when her friends start espousing the very conspiracy theories theyre meant to be evaluating; Kayleigh begins to wonder if the job may be too much for them. Shes still totally fine, thoughor is she?