EAN: 9780593472941

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction Longlisted for the PEN Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Sly surprising and razor-sharp Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents—also talented musicians—who fled China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. But when an accident leaves her parents debilitated she abandons her future for a job at a high-end beauty and wellness store in New York City.   Holistik is known for its remarkable products and procedures—from remoras that suck out cheap Botox to eyelash extensions made of spider silk—and her new job affords her entry into a world of privilege and gives her a long-awaited sense of belonging. She becomes transfixed by Helen the niece of Holistik’s charismatic owner and the two strike up a friendship that hazily veers into more. All the while our narrator is plied with products that slim her thighs smooth her skin and lighten her hair. But beneath these creams and tinctures lies something sinister.   A piercing darkly funny debut Natural Beauty explores questions of consumerism self-worth race and identity—and leaves readers with a shocking and unsettling truth.

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