Do you find Jia Tolentino to be a reliable narrator? Why or why not?

Tolentino is an extremely self-reflective narrator -- she is expressive and eloquent with her words, demonstrating her beliefs with clarity and precision. The reader easily finds Tolentino to be reliable because of the way in which she is brutally reflective and hypercritical; Tolentino acknowledges the areas in which her behavior may be contradictory and hypocritical, and because of this, she appears to be less susceptible to the mass self-delusion that plagues our society.

How does the author demonstrate the interconnected nature of themes such as sexism, racism and classism?

Throughout the novel, Tolentino frequently refers to these three themes in relation to each other. She acknowledges the ways in which they build on and magnify one another -- oftentimes, cases of sexism, racism and classism are explored in the same contexts and are...