EAN: 9780593472941

NATURAL BEAUTY - LING LING HUANG KARTONIERT (TB)

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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