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Does what you see change who you are?

Kayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts need to be removed. Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend. For the first time in her life, the future seems bright . . . But soon the job begins to shift Kayleigh’s world in alarming ways. In the glare of the screen, how long can Kayleigh hold on to her humanity?

Hanna Bervoets' stunning novel We Had To Remove This Post is translated from the Dutch by Emma Rault.

‘This novel gives us an acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today . . . Fascinating and disturbing’ - Ling Ma, author of Severance

Emma Rault is a writer and a translator from German and Dutch. Her essays have appeared in Guernica, The Cut, the LA Review of Books, and on Sky News’ Morning Stories in the UK, among other outlets. She is the recipient of a 2019 Idyllwild Arts Fellowship for non-fiction.

Recent and forthcoming translations include Hanna Bervoets’ We Had to Remove This Post (Mariner/Picador, 2022), Edward van de Vendel’s The Days of Bluegrass Love (Levine Querido, 2022) Nina Polak’s The Dandy (Strangers Press, 2020) and Rudolph Herzog’s Ghosts of Berlin (Melville House, 2019). Shorter work has appeared in Literary Hub, Asymptote, no man’s land, ANMLY, New Books in German and elsewhere. She has received translation grants from the Dutch Literature Foundation and was one of the translators-in-residence at the 2019 Crossing Border Festival in The Hague. In 2017, she was awarded the GINT Translation Prize for translation from German into English.

Some of her previous homes have included the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, the upstairs of a bird-of-prey hospital in rural Cambridgeshire and a houseboat on the London canals. She currently lives in Los Angeles.