In the beginning, I thought that I wanted to write this book because I wanted people to think critically and carefully about gossip: about how we demonize and vilify it, about how we demean it as “women’s talk” and package it as dangerous. And that’s still important to me, but I am no longer certain that truth is a concept we are capable of holding between our hands, and I know that gossiping—be it for fun or for information sharing—is at its very core all about truth.
