Aesthetica

Aesthetica
Authors
Allie Rowbottom
Publisher
Soho Press
Size
0.56 MB
Lang
en
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In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her pastand takes inventory of the damages that underpin the surface-glamour of social media.At 19, she was an Instagram celebrity.Now, at 35, she works behind the cosmetic counter at the black and white store, peddling anti-aging products to women seeking physical and spiritual transformation. She too is seeking rebirth. Shes about to undergo the high-risk, elective surgery Aesthetica, a procedure that will reverse all her past plastic surgery procedures, returning her, she hopes, to a truer self.Provided she survives the knife.But on the eve of the surgery, her traumatic past resurfaces when she is asked to participate in the public takedown of her former manager/boyfriend, who has rebranded himself as a paragon of woke masculinity in the post-#MeToo world. With the hours ticking down to her surgery, she must confront...