


The job means that for hours on end, Kayleigh and her co-workers must review posts that contain racial violence, self-mutilation and animal cruelty in order to determine if they violate Hexa policies. Kayleigh is a new “quality assurance worker” at the social media company Hexa.

This is Bervoets’s first novel to be translated - by Emma Rault - into English. Widely acclaimed in the Netherlands, Bervoets is the author of nine books and was recently awarded the Frans Kellendonk Prize for her body of work. Hanna Bervoets’s slim, potent new novel, “We Had to Remove This Post,” appears at first to be the story of a tech workplace gone terribly awry, but it quickly shape-shifts into something more surprising and enigmatic. WE HAD TO REMOVE THIS POST, by Hanna Bervoets, translated by Emma Rault
