NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - In this ambitiously multilayered novel
from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon
Squad, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car
accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that
it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it.
She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a
virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied.
With the surreal authority of a David Lynch, Jennifer Egan threads
Charlotte's narrative with those of other casualties of our infatuation
with the image. There's a deceptively plain teenaged girl embarking on a
dangerous secret life, an alcoholic private eye, and an enigmatic
stranger who changes names and accents as he prepares an apocalyptic
blow against American society.
As these narratives inexorably converge, Look at Me becomes a coolly
mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture.