It’s Hard to Be Chronically Online and Hate Your Friends

Early on in Anika Jade Levy’s satirical debut novel, “Flat Earth,” two young women named Avery and Frances bond over their preference for an astronomy app over the real thing: “We both agreed we preferred the constellation on her touch screen — colorful and psychedelic — to the night sky itself,” Avery reflects. The scene is one of the book’s best. Witty and poignant, a joke about people “born behind screens.”