

Hanna Bervoets has created an astonishing and compelling cast of characters, drawn together through circumstance, separated by the same.


Fascinating and disturbing." - Ling Ma, author of Severance "We Had To Remove This Post is one of the most fascinating books I've read in years. This is, unironically, a novel for our time." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "This novel gives us an acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today, a job that extracts an immeasurable psychic toll. 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." - Ian McEwan "Powerful, discussable, and a harbinger of a voice-in-translation to watch." - Booklist (starred review) "Scathing, darkly humorous exploration of the impact of VR, IRL. Hanna Bervoets has richly obliged in this superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle novel of mental unravelling. It needed an accomplished novelist to explore humanely the damage. Believe me when I say you've never read anything like it." - Kristen Arnett, New York Times -bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth, "The dank underside of social media, its cruelty and delusions, have become, our shared affliction. A brilliant peek behind the curtains at what happens when we put our trust in social media. The novel is fast-paced and thrilling, violent and nightmarish and grief-stricken, but also tender and wildly moving.

Believe me when I say you've never read anything like it." - Kristen Arnett, New York Times -bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth, Praise for We Had to Remove This Post " We Had To Remove This Post is one of the most fascinating books I've read in years. Fascinating and disturbing." - Ling Ma, author of Severance " We Had To Remove This Post is one of the most fascinating books I've read in years. Praise for We Had to Remove This Post "This novel gives us an acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today, a job that extracts an immeasurable psychic toll.
