Look at me - Jennifer Egan

A National Book Award Finalist
In this ambitiously multilayered novel from the acclaimed and award-winning writer Jennifer Egan, 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.