Muriel, newly married & newly orphaned, works as a waitress in a San Diego diner. As she pours coffee & empties ashtrays, she
...Explores the human propensity for gossip & storytelling, & discusses how our fears & hopes can work against common sense. This book also investigates the way that the internet can entrench our false beliefs even deeper, & how the wish to conform, our natural biases & even our basic emotions can cause us to fall for untrue accounts.