Look at Me A Novel

<b>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • In this ambitiously multilayered novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of <i>A Visit from the Goon Squad</i>, 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. </b><br><br>She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied.<br><br> 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. <br><br>As these narratives inexorably converge, <i>Look at Me</i> becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture.