I Would Be Doing This Anyway

Currency

By: Jia Tolentino

Narrated by: Kelly Marie Tran

A razor-sharp short story about anonymity, mutual deception, and the perils of overexposure - debut fiction by Jia Tolentino, the New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror.

With the pandemic looming, a listless social media editor accepts a job working for her former college friend Seraphina. A popular Instagram influencer, the subject of obsessive message-board surveillance, and a newly minted Karen of the Day, Seraphina is living out 2020 in the luxury of her “ultimate self-quarantine.” As the year escalates into upheaval and chaos, both women try, in increasingly secretive and complicated ways, to maintain the upper hand.

Jia Tolentino’s I Would Be Doing This Anyway is part of Currency, a compounding collection of stories about wealth, class, competition, and collapse. If time is money, deposit here with interest. Read or listen in a single sitting.

©2021 Jia Tolentino (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Fun

I thoroughly enjoyed this short story and I’m looking forward to listening to Trick Mirror.

Doesn’t have the spark

I like the author’s other work but this was boring and lifeless. The narrator did an okay job but paused in weird places like they were having trouble keeping up with their reading