Naomi Klein has new, more personal book out in September, 'Doppelganger'

This image released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux shows Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux via AP) (Uncredited)

NEW YORK ā€“ Activist and best-selling author Naomi Klein has a book coming out in September that will combine personal reflections with political reporting and cultural commentary.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux announced Wednesday that in "Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World," Klein will explore a time rife with ā€œconfusion across political, technological, environmental and medical spheres.ā€

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One point of confusion touched on in the book: Online commentators who mistake Klein for the author Naomi Wolf, leading Klein to tweet ā€œplease keep your Naomis straightā€ in 2020.

Klein said in a statement Wednesday that the book was a ā€œdepartureā€ for her, ā€œmore personal, more experimental" and will explore ā€œwhat it feels like to watch oneā€™s identity slip away in the digital ether.ā€

ā€œMostly, itā€™s an attempt to grapple with the wildness of right now ā€” with conspiracy cultures surging and strange left-right alliances emerging and nobody seeming to be quite what they seem,ā€ she said. "'Doppelganger' is my attempt at a usable map of our moment in history ā€” but to make it, I had to get lost a few times.ā€

Klein's previous books include "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" and ā€œOn Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal.ā€ She is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia and co-director of the school's Centre for Climate Justice.


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